Hi everyone,
I have a student with a diagnosis of Aspergers undertaking a full time FE BTEC course, the student has been a student of this college for over a year and things have gone downhill this year. We have run out of ideas of things to try. Suggestions please
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The student arrives in the morning at 9am and normally not make it further than the door, the student is usually spotted by a member of staff who prompts them to go to the library or go to class. The student will occasional go straight away but normally
stand there on their phone/staring into space for anther 20 minutes - half an hour.
The student is frequently late to class, not being able to remember where any of the classrooms are, falls asleep during class and needs to be woken by teachers every few minutes. The student is prompted by teaches what work needs to completed, it is
broken down into small tasks and frequent prompts/help given but the student will generally just stare at the work or the screen and not complete anything or very little. The teachers assess what the student has learnt during the class and re-check it at the
start of the next class but again very little if anything is remembered.
The student works with a teacher one on one several times a week to break down coursework, complete tasks towards assignments, etc but frequently the student is late, not remembering what time or where they are meeting the teacher (same place, day times
every week), needs prompting to take out work, log onto computer, answer questions and again falls asleep regularly.
The student has been provided with a 'to-do-list' of tasks to complete in free time or with the one on one teacher but the student needs prompts to take this out, use it and tick off when tasks have been completed. The student has also been given a card
with the day, time and location of the one on one class but is still late for this. We have tried suggesting setting alarms on the students mobile phone to remind them when classes start/location but it is often out of battery. We
have purchased some clocks that highlight time passed so the student can see when e.g. 10 minutes passed as suggested by the parents to help the student focus on tasks. I am also doing up a visual timetable with images of the teachers/room and day/times in
the hope that might prompt the student to get to the right class on time.
This is a big change from what they student was like last year. The parents have reported that the student is frequently awake until the early hours on the computer which probably explains why the student is falling asleep in class.
Apologies if this is a big vague, I don't want the student to be easily identified.
Thanks,
Emma