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Hot Weather & Cp

Hi, I work, as a LSA, with a wonderful chap of 14 in mainstream school. He is mobile although with some gait issues.
However, the hot weather increases his fatigue enormously - probably what you'd expect. It's a large secondary school, with lots of walking in between lessons. About half his timetable is either on the first floor (3 flights of stairs) or second (six flights).
This exhausts him, but......
the SENCO's attitude is 'inclusion, inclusion, inclusion'; and that it is more important for him to be in class with other students in this weather, than in the resources centre - where I and the other LSA's can work with him, without the need for him to keep moving around. No matter what I say, the SENCO won't accept that his gets exhausted easily....
Am I indulging him?
Is it documented on how hot weather affects CP ?- we have a similar problem in the winter, but I was able to evidence that people with CP feel the cold more because of the lack of subcutaneous fat; but I can hardly use the same argument!
However, the hot weather increases his fatigue enormously - probably what you'd expect. It's a large secondary school, with lots of walking in between lessons. About half his timetable is either on the first floor (3 flights of stairs) or second (six flights).
This exhausts him, but......
the SENCO's attitude is 'inclusion, inclusion, inclusion'; and that it is more important for him to be in class with other students in this weather, than in the resources centre - where I and the other LSA's can work with him, without the need for him to keep moving around. No matter what I say, the SENCO won't accept that his gets exhausted easily....
Am I indulging him?
Is it documented on how hot weather affects CP ?- we have a similar problem in the winter, but I was able to evidence that people with CP feel the cold more because of the lack of subcutaneous fat; but I can hardly use the same argument!
Replies
Maybe its just us but the warm weather does effect me. It makes me fatigue really really quickly and when its hot the thought of doing anything to energetic makes me just want to crawl back to bed! It just makes everything much harder, even climbing the stairs in my own home.
Hope that sort of helps.
I think hot weather does affect CP sufferers. Every year i dread the summer and i always say this is where i hybonate for 3 months. I get extra tired (more tired than normal) quicker even having a bowl of cereal. Its awful I feel I cant function because the weather is blocking that for me.
Hope this is a bit of help
Amber
I certainly does take a lot more energy for us CP sufferers to move around, imagine a wheel which needs oiling, and is stiff and difficult to turn. Thats the best way I can explain how I feel when I am walking, I can walk unaided but with stiff limbs its hard work. Growing up with CP I have always said, ' I dont know any different, I just get on with it, but now I am getting older, I am struggling. And, back to the first question, yes the heat certainly makes it all worse.
Dare I say it - roll on Autum.
Take Care Karen
PS I dont like the cold either, LOL it makes me stiffer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!