Jeanine - Interview 46  

Jeanine - Interview 46

Age at Interview: 46
Sex: Female
Background: Jeanine, a local authority employee, lives with her daughter aged 11 and son aged 8. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Jeanine’s son was diagnosed with autism when he was five years old. He attends a mainstream primary school with support and has made good progress at school.

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Jeanine feels that there should be more investment in her son to help him to access the curriculum.

 



After a two year wait from the Health Authority he finally got to see an Occupational Therapist and had about six to eight sessions which were really useful and which he quite enjoyed but then they stopped because that was the end of the resource allocation.
 
Now I don’t understand this but you hear a lot about integrated children’s services. We hear a lot about the ways in which health and education should be working together but it just really isn’t happening and I can’t understand why the investment isn’t put into my child at this early stage to help him to write, which will him help him access more of the curriculum and help him to be more independent at school. And really help him with his ability to move on with his education.

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