All change

It's been a year of change, with the arrival of Edith, Bea starting school and finally employing a permanent after school carer for James. And as the long summer holiday draws to a close we face yet more changes. Change is hard for people on the autistic spectrum. Characteristically, they find it hard to deal with and disruption to their routine throws the whole world into chaos, making it hard for them to predict what's coming next. We've always felt that James isn't actually that affected by changes, he doesn't seem thrown when we get a reavemwnt cater to cover leave or if I serve supper later or earlier than usual. Overall he's quite passive and seems to cope with these sort of changes quite well, at least on the surface. I'm not so sure how well he's going to cope with the changes coming up at school though. He's been in the same classroom for 3 years mow and a couple of his classmates have remained the same throughout too. But this year he's changing classrooms, entering a class with completely different children and has new teachers and teaching assistants.... I hooe he (and they) copes....