Can anyone advise please?
Ds has always had a variety of tics, both vocal and physical, that appear when he's stressed.
This week he has started a new one, which is a sort of head jerk, followed by a head shaking movement and it's pretty much constant.
The thing is, he has always been oblivious to his tics before, but he is acutely aware of this one and it's distressing him. He says he can't stop it, it just keeps jerking.
He keeps asking me what to do about it and I have no answers for him. I've told him to do something he finds relaxing and he's currently reading his Star Wars Visual Dictionary, but it isn't helping.
I also had a chat with him this morning, away from the tic context, about whether he was happy and whether there was anything bothering him. He got very upset about the other lads in his year all being heavily into Binweevils and him feeling excluded because he can't go on it (house rule, no online communication other than supervised email). So, we looked at it together and text his bf's mum to ask how she's found it since her dcs all started using it and we have said we will set up an account, but he will have to earn the access to it and it must be supervised. He's ok with that.
The thing is, I think the binweevils thing is a bit of a red herring and basically a flag that he's majorly struggling socially at school. I'm wondering if that's what's behind the tics, but at the same time, school is pretty much a car-crash across the board at the moment, but he's not opening up about it.
The thing is, I am at deadlock with the school at the moment. They saw dh a few weeks back, but have done nothing but balls things up further since then and have now denied me a promised IEP review meeting and deliver a completed IEP to me in the playground as a 'done deal'.
I have emailed his inclusion teacher with my concerns and asked if it might be possible to have a conversation with her boss, as she has recently been into school to discuss ds and the SENCO claimed that both the teacher and her boss were involved in writing the frankly worse than crap IEP.
All a bit of a mess really. We have been trudging on, like wading through treacle, but he is clearly suffering and if I can't do anything about the school issues, is there at least something I can do to help him with this tic?
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