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Latest post on 03 September 2014 - 21:30

LOL its been a long day, thanks Plum2 yes I meant inclusion officer.

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Latest post on 03 September 2014 - 21:19

Hi there, my good friend's DS has just started at GEMS Wellington Al Khail, he has just turned 6. Sorry I'm not sure exactly what the term is for his Autism. Last year he was at the Devleloping child centre and they were basically getting him ready for mainstream school. The problem my friend found is that none of the schools want take the children with Speacial needs as they don't have the resources. GEMS Wellington Al Khail was the only one. (I'm pretty sure she approached every school in Dubai and got a "No sorry") She had a tough time finding a school willing to work with her DS,he's only been their two days but he has his own shadow and the school has an exclusions officer and so far my friend is very very happy that he and his older sister are at the same school. Hope this has helped, good luck.

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Latest post on 18 January 2014 - 21:41

Good evening all, My 7 yr DD is struggling to go to sleep at night and is waking constantly. She never has been a great sleeper and would often wake in the night. She decided to stop sucking her thumb about a year ago and since then her getting off to sleep has been considerably worse. She is scared of the dark so insists on having lamps on and her bathroom light on. I know having lamps on aren't really helping settle her down but she freaks out if her room is too dark. She's always has a relaxing bedtime routine which is bath or shower followed by bedtime story or two with her brother. I'll allow her to read for a few minutes before asking her to switch her big light out and go to sleep. That's when she tends to start acting up. Every night it'll be something new. Something will hurt, an itch, sore leg, sore tummy. Scared of the dark, scared being on her own, am I going downstairs? I've lying with her but she'll only wake up later and end up coming in my bed. I've tried getting cross but that just makes it worse then I'll only feel terrible. I've tried treating as a "big girl" and letting her read after her younger brother has gone to sleep but she'll just drag out her bedtime to really late. Some nights it's gone 9 by the time she's gone off. She has an early start of 6.30 am and is always really sorry the next day and promises she''ll go to bed nicely. Every night she'll wake up and come into our room. I tried for a month recently just letting her climb in hoping she'd grow out of it as I thought she needed the reassurance. But it's no use she still comes in every night. I take her back to bed but she'll then cry. I have a 7 month old baby who still wakes twice a night but very rarely is it the baby that's disturbed her. She doesn't have nightmares and when I ask what it is that scares her she just says it's the dark. I really really am at a loss now what to do. It's almost that she's got a phobia about going to sleep. She never admits to being tired. I'm convinced her school work is being affected now as she doesn't appear as quick and sharp as she has previously. Last night between my 3 kids I was woken 5 times. Is there anyone we can see? Any suggestions would be great. TIA x

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Latest post on 08 September 2013 - 16:23

Hi there, Yes I understand your frustration. I flew our dog back to the UK in July and it does appear to be a very complicated procedure. I received a quote from DKCC and it was just too expensive, 8000aed. DKCC do however offer free advice. I found them very helpful and ended up doing it myself within two days at the cheaper cost of 3000 aed. Good luck

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