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"How see you coping...? Respite care is not an option in many cases... our normal outlets for destressing are closed to us.. and many are finding themselves with increasingly anxious and confused people to care for. My daughter has some understanding but not about things like this. So how are people coping and getting on with things .. I've been trying to keep her routine as similar as I could. However she has no peer groups now.. not even via calls. No social care support now No physio. She used to go to the library every week and now cant and ia getting annoyed with me about it. Yea she can go out and exercise more. I can still take her out to places that help her . Like the local park she would normally go to with her group as opposed to my local One. Things she is normally looking forward to and we use as positive focus points have gone.. and I'm finding it hard to motivate her. Not least as a carer your support has gone too. So how you managing. And hugs ( cyber obviously) to you all" Your library should be open soon, ours is gearing up along with the town council offices to open, all the plastic and floor signs are in. Check your library fb page x | |||
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"How see you coping...? Respite care is not an option in many cases... our normal outlets for destressing are closed to us.. and many are finding themselves with increasingly anxious and confused people to care for. My daughter has some understanding but not about things like this. So how are people coping and getting on with things .. I've been trying to keep her routine as similar as I could. However she has no peer groups now.. not even via calls. No social care support now No physio. She used to go to the library every week and now cant and ia getting annoyed with me about it. Yea she can go out and exercise more. I can still take her out to places that help her . Like the local park she would normally go to with her group as opposed to my local One. Things she is normally looking forward to and we use as positive focus points have gone.. and I'm finding it hard to motivate her. Not least as a carer your support has gone too. So how you managing. And hugs ( cyber obviously) to you all Your library should be open soon, ours is gearing up along with the town council offices to open, all the plastic and floor signs are in. Check your library fb page x" thanks I've been checking and as yet its not planning on opening. They are running a remote service where you can drop your books off and then for some members ( those that are shielding) you can get books dropped to your door. I'd love to just arrange to meet one of the other parents with the kids and sit on opposite sides of the park path. Its approximately 2.5m gap.. but our kids would want to hug and tend to talk with touches as well as words. I've got her some clay coming this week. As that's what she should have been doing in art class. And trying to arrange a online karaoke session in replacement of the once a month karaoke night at a local night club for adults with special needs. But not sure if we can do it. | |||
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"Not going to lie, it's been a struggle.... More so for me and my other kids, than him, he's not mentally old enough to actually understand, but the outbursts and violence from him has been more frequent than normal, so it's been more dangerous for my other kids, cause despite his size, he's actually very strong.... So in our house it's just surviving and trying to avoid A&E. Although his social worker has recently given me the green light to take him to another family member who's been shielded aswell, because the only other option for respite is school, which as far as I'm concerned defeats the point, he's less exposed with a shielding family member than he is at school.... I'm struggling with this green light to break lock down rules, but if it gets any worse, I'll probably have to for all of our safety and mental health..... It's easy for people to judge others for breaking lock down, but I feel the government has let down special needs families, some of us can be just a physically abused by our SEND children, as someone in an abusive relationship " Just to clarify, we also shielded due to his severe asthma. Incase anyone thinks I'd be risking a shielding family member | |||
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"I don't have a child with special needs but before the lockdown, I worked with adults with learning disabilities in a day care setting. The day centre is obviously shut at present, with us not knowing when it will open again. As far as I'm aware, all the families are regularly contacted by members of staff (done on rota basis for staff). I can appreciate it's not a lot, when your child had been going to day centre 5 days a week, for 7 or so hours a day. But at least it's something, it's showing the families that we did not forget about them, we're there, on the other end of the phone, if they need someone to chat with and offer ideas how to break boredom. There is also a dedicated Facebook group (private) for our service users, staff and families, to share ideas, updates etc. Again, appreciate it's not a lot, but there isn't much more we can do. " Though about residential while the day service is shut? | |||
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"I don't have a child with special needs but before the lockdown, I worked with adults with learning disabilities in a day care setting. The day centre is obviously shut at present, with us not knowing when it will open again. As far as I'm aware, all the families are regularly contacted by members of staff (done on rota basis for staff). I can appreciate it's not a lot, when your child had been going to day centre 5 days a week, for 7 or so hours a day. But at least it's something, it's showing the families that we did not forget about them, we're there, on the other end of the phone, if they need someone to chat with and offer ideas how to break boredom. There is also a dedicated Facebook group (private) for our service users, staff and families, to share ideas, updates etc. Again, appreciate it's not a lot, but there isn't much more we can do. " I agree, my sons teacher has been an endless source of support to me. I'd be lost without her, she really has been amazing. My other kids school principal has also been really great with checking in, I'm very fortunate that she is also a parent of an ASD son, and a non ASD child. So she really understands it from all angles. I really feel for support workers and teachers, they really are trying to do the best that that they can do, with very little guidance from government, all the support they have given has been off their own backs, not because they've been told to. Definitely unsung heroes in all of this | |||
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