Loneliness In mainstream school

lizzyscope
lizzyscope Community member Posts: 2 Listener
edited January 2018 in Families and carers
hi
my sons 15 and in a mainstream school. He’s the only wheelchair user and finds breaktimes really lonely. He doesn’t want to watch his peers play football and spends his breaks on a computer instead. He’s been asking to be home schooled as he doesn’t think he’d be more lonely if he were. He also gets comments daily from kids - lots of ‘dont Run me over’ comments that really annoy him. Does anyone have ideas for what activities or approaches we could try to make school less isolated?

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  • Alex
    Alex Scope Posts: 1,282 Pioneering
    Hi Lizzy,

    Welcome to the community. I hope we can help. 

    Scope runs workshops on disability for secondary schools, perhaps you could encourage the school to book one? It would hopefully help the other students to understand a bit more about disability and include him more?
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  • the_velvet_girl
    the_velvet_girl Community member Posts: 107 Contributor
    When I was at school, there was a room where people could go if they had a disability, were going through a tough time or just found the playground overwhelming. I wonder if your son's school has anything similar? I used it a few times when I was in plaster and enjoyed chatting to people from other year groups I wouldn't have spoken to otherwise. Also, could your son do activities outside school to meet new friends, such as wheelchair or CP football? 

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