Submission
No 19
INQUIRY INTO SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER
Name: Graeme Drysdale
Date Received: 20 February 2016
Submission S019 Received 20/02/2016 Family and Community Development Committee
Some suggestions:
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introduce in to all teacher training recognition of conditions that may afflict students which are often misinterpreted as bad behaviour, not fitting in, etc;
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allocate areas in schools specifically for children who need respite; somewhere to lay down, somewhere quiet;
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class sizes and a culture in some classrooms that accommodates their needs. For example: a normal noisy classroom would take its toll on my daughter, as one of the aspects of her Aspergers is a high intolerance for noise;
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easier and affordable access to diagnostic professionals and care for those on the spectrum;
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a raised awareness of how ASD is display in girls, it is still largely a ’boys’condition;
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wider promotion of the Distance Education Centre (DECV) as an alternative schooling for children who suffer social anxiety. Our daughter enrolled with DECV in 2015, this year she is commencing her Year 12 with them; once we did not expect her to complete VCE, but she is on the path to doing so, getting excellent
results. NOBODY TOLD US ABOUT DECV OR THAT IT CATERED FOR STUDENTS LIKE OUR
DAUGHTER - NOBODY.
Please hold a hearing in Ballarat.
with thanks graeme drysdale
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