If your son has an IEP, then you should ask for an IEP meeting and request an accomondation. Your accomondation would be either that he has a trained 1-on-1 aide or that you would be allowed to attend. The law says that your child needs the less-restrictive environmnet. It can easily be argued that going on the field trip with support is less restrictive than not going.

If your son's IEP team is normally resistant to your requests, you should come prepared by getting am a professional to support you in advance by writing a letter saying that because of your son's deficients in xyz skills, he requires supports to participate in abc activities.

If your son does not have an IEP, then they are not required to accomondate your son's special needs. At this point, your best chance is to appeal to the human in the teacher and principal by going to them and pleading your case in a calm and respectful way. Again the letter from the professional will be helpful.

Make it clear that your son IS going. Their only choice is whether to include you as chaperone or pay for an aide to accompany him. Pretty sure they will make room for you. Good luck

I would think if your child needs one on one support that he would have an aide in school and that aide would help with school support in all ways. If he can't go out of town without one on one support, then certainly school knows he needs it all the time. If it is not in his IEP, run to a professional advocate to get what he needs into his IEP.

If this is a school sponsored activity, the school MUST provide for him at the district's expense or else they are breaking Wright's Law. Case in point:

My twins were in 5th grade and there was to be an overnight camping trip at a local campground. A permission slip came home for my daughter but not for my ASD son and I wondered why. I contacted an advocate (many are free of charge) and she said that there should be accommodations made for my son BECAUSE IT IS A SCHOOL SPONSORED ACTIVITY and if the school does not provide this, they have broken the law. I don't remember the exact part of Wright's law but she did send me an excerpt about how our children HAVE to be included and if there needs to be an aide, the school needs to pay for it. Besides, this trip was not on a weekend, it was during the weekday whereas he would have an aide anyway.

I do know my son and he would have kept the boys up all night with his singing and commercial recitals like he does every night (LOL!) and I would not have him spend the night. However, I would have dropped him off at school for the bus ride to the campground and picked him up at the end of the day and brought him back first thing in the morning for the next day's activities. I was NEVER consulted or asked how we would like to arrange the trip for him. For his part--dead silence from their end. After the trip concluded, I called the school and told them that they broke the law, that I do have the right to sue them, how we could have come to an arrangement and to watch themselves in the future for doing this to special needs kids. They acted so surprised at how they could have overlooked my son. This coming from a teacher who praises his ability in her class (LRE) all the time but was THE teacher who put the trip together. SHE overlooked him?

School systems can walk all over people if they know you do not know the rules and policies dealing with an asd child. A child with ASD has all rights to learn and go on field trips like any other child and the school has to prepare for that wether they ask you to come along or they hire someone trained in working with ASD children go with him. I received my certificate in autism education so I could understand everything to help my son as well as understanding the school systems and IEPS. I would approach the school board and demand them to include him. If they wont then get an advocate to help fight for his rights