We had a child with autism at school and noticed the child's behaviourwas deteriorating. We didn't know what to attribute it to, but the childwas becoming less communicative, more prone to outbursts and wasself-harming.
Then we noticed comments written by the parent in the child'shome-school communication book about not being able to cope at home. Itappeared that the child was coping at school, but difficulties at homewere causing the worsening behaviour.
We decided to phone the parent, but got no response. We then triedcontacting the parent via the home-school book but got no reply. Wedecided to talk to the family's social worker and let the parent know wehad done so through the home-school book.
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