fire alarm sensitivity troubles

By tired lady

Wed 20 Feb 2008 16:34

hi all
im looking for ideas to get my son back into school. a couple of weeks ago. the school had a fire alarm practice and conitnous fire alarm testing the same day. this has petrified my autistic son who is very sound sensitive. when i spoke to his teacher she seemed very vacant when i asked whether he had warning in form of a social story. or was he helped in anyway. well it seems not. bearing in mind this is a special school. who would think they would have dealt with this sort of problem before.
so now i cant get him into school. refused to get on his school bus. so we took himourselves in the car. after a screaming fit. and fight i got him to his classroom. cried for awhile then enjoyed the rest of the day. after he realised their was no noise.
next refused to get in the car. to go to school.
then striped of all his clothes when dressed in uniform and refused to get in the car.

now it has spiralled out of controlled refuses to get dressed at all or go in the car. as he always believes he is going to school no matter what i say or do.
All i get from his teacher is use a social story. does she think ive not tried this?. He reads them but does not except them. no matter what picture is on the story whether it be school or no school.
My son is only a little verbal. but reads and write well. He is hyperlexic. so he can read more than he can understand.

i think the school feel that because he is very bright that he should understand.

you cannot calm him with things that make him happy. he will just throw it at you. his teacher said put him on the bus with his psp . he can have it at school too. but what she doesnt seem to get is that , you could have 20 playstations for him to play with. it still will not work.
unfortunately all my sons and hubby ( all are on the spectrum) are the same. it may just be a family trait not an autistic one.
he will follow his schedules and social stories well when he is happy.

im going to try and make home very boring so he doesnt want to be here. but that would mean turning of the electric so he has no telly, computer etc. The only problem with this is. i will not be able to do anything ie housework etc as the power will be off. and having a family that is sensory sensitive to everything i have to do this when their is no one in the house.
I cant just pull out the plugs as he is clever enough to deal with all that. food will also go dodgy having the fridge and freezer off.

Cant walk him to school as it is 15 miles away. can get out of all fancy seatbelts undoing them or not.

see my dilema any ideas

teresa an even more tired lady at mo