Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherie
I would agree that blue badges should be issued to children with learning difficulties who have no physical issues, especially when they get older and more difficult to manage. I work with teenagers with autism and the strength they can exhibit if they are not in a situation they are comfortable with can put them and their parents/carers in dangerous situations.
|
Mine does it already, it's not that she's overly strong but she's just a crafty bugger. She's developed this sort of twist/jerk movement with her arm that's lightning fast and her hand just pops out of your grip no matter how tight it is! Plus I swear she pretends to be playing along until you let your guard down before she does it
.
It's a tough sell because most of the time she's not "being difficult"... she's happy, laughing, being mischievous but the problem lies in the fact that she has ZERO sense of danger and no way of explaining it to her. And like I said - it's actually worse because she has no physical disability... she's off like a shot. Her whole sense of danger is essentially linked to her own pavlovian experience of bad consequences. I don't have to worry about her around the cooker when it's on - because she's touched it before and burned her fingers. She's generally not at risk around "edges" from falls - because she has fallen off of things before and knows it can hurt. But how do you teach a child who has no abstract concept of risk about the dangers of cars? It's not like we can just hit her with one
. She has no idea of the consequences of running into a road.