Hello all, I have been working a few hours supporting a year 2 boy with autism who has recently joined the school. He settled well and has been making friends. Lately however he has been expressing a lot of concerns to his parents, although not in school, about another boy bullying him and how he does not want to come to school. We do not feel he is being bullied, but finds the other boy annoying sometimes and cannot work out how to ask him to stop his games or persistent behaviour, as he's only just got used to asking to play with others.

I will be taking him out of class once a week for an hour to do some emotional literacy with him to help him understand his and other's behaviour. As he moved to our school because of difficulties at his last school I do not want him to go down this route again. I know there are lots of resources out there but I am new to this and feel abit overwhelmed. Any ideas of where to start?!
I know this is a tall order as every child is so different and it is difficult to explain the character of an individual.

Also any tips on how to reduce writing size? He is a bright lad but has some fine and motor co-ordination difficulties which impacts on his writing.

Thanks - your forum has been so helpful to me with many tips and advice on my NVQ 2 (which I've now almost completed)

Have you tried the National Autistic Society? They have a very good website with lots of advice and resources. They were very helpful when I phoned for advice and sent me lots of information. Our LEA has an Advisory Teacher for children on the Autistic spectrum who will come into school to advise on individual children and runs training courses either centrally or school based if appropriate.

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Good luck.

try writing a social story about it. they are a great way of helping children on the spectrum.

you could find pictures of different situations including someone hurting or bullying another child and discuss them all and how you could deal with that situation.

hope you can get it all sorted.

Children on the spectrum have difficulty with emotions and social relationships, so he may only be able to describe the others boys behaviour as bullying even if it is not in the real sense.. You could maybe do some work on this area, he may just need help with the correct language to use.

You shouldalso to talk to the other boy and explain to him that X is finding his attention uncomfortable.

The child I work with need line guides to help with his hand writing, he tends to fill the space available. I also do daily fine motor skills with him. These include exercise, pegging things/play dough/plasticine/using tweezers (large science ones) to move things (paperclips etc).

You can also get him to copy writing/trace shapes/wiggly lines etc. I use road-ways as my lad like vehicles.

Good luck.

Thanks for all your replies, you've given me some ideas to start with and I will crack on and just see where it leads me!!

Good luck

Could you take the other boy out too and let them play a board game sometimes this can help.