My Daughter was diagnosed with Autism yesterday

[Chelsea01]

Originally Posted by cherylc5773

Request special assistance off your airline for disembarking the aircraft and navigating the airport.

My son has autism and we were met at the plane door (virgin) and bypassed the 3 hour queue at immigration by a member of staff to a special queue.

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Thank you! I will look into it, we are flying Thomson so flying into Sanford

[Chelsea01]

Originally Posted by Gryff

Check out Autismattheparkscom all the info you may need for any of the parks airport etc on there

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Thank you 😊

[Chelsea01]

Originally Posted by *cath*

My son is Autistic and couldn't cope with the queues so we went to guest relations at Disney and Universal and they were fab, got a fastpass which meant we either got straight on a ride or where told when to come back, they were really helpful

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Thank you 😊

[Chelsea01]

Thank you all for your advice! because Paige has only just been diagnosed it's the unknown of how she will cope with airport and the parks... thank you once again x

[Bootrip2]

Its always a bit mixed isnt it, part of you must be relieved that they have found out what her problems are along with sadness too. Take a while to digest the information, try not to panic, there is so much more help available to aid your daughter through the many difficulties she will face. Be careful where you look for advice online. Usually the drs involved will direct you to the better websites. Take time to adjust, and i am sure you will be fine. Let the school know and they may be able to get extra help for her there too. X good luck and best wishes to you all as a family who will be in this together. X

[babywebb]

Thanks to the info on here I call up Ba and they were brilliant they even prebooked our seats free of charge ds is 10 and was diagnosed last year . Don't forget If flying from Gatwick to get the lanyard so staff are aware 😀😀

[Guest]

I am in a similar situation to this, our 6 year old was diagnosed this year as high functioning and when we go in just over 2 weeks time we are going to be asking about the disability pass, waiting in queues with him in the past has been an absolute nightmare but now he's diagnosed I'm hoping we will be eligible for the disability pass to make things a little less stressful.

[amandajane10]

I have 2 children with Autism aged 7 and 8. We went to Florida for the first time with them last Easter. They were amazing on the flight and we had someone waiting at MCO with a chair for youngest and he then took us through everything right up to getting the car. We got the access passes in all the parks which made things so much easier. We also got a disabled parking pass as my youngest has a blue badge. We enjoyed it so much we are going back in a couple of weeks.

[amandajane10]

Oh and Virgin and TC booked our seats for free and flying from Manchester you can request a special lanyard.

[thefourDs]

We too have an autistic child, although ours is 10 and we had a wait years for him to be diagnosed.

We are flying from Gatwick and they've already offered a free lanyard and a person to escort us through security as he hates queues & crowds make him scared.

Our plan is to get the DAS card at the parks.

Theme parks in the UK are great too, I bought us all Merlin passes this year and mine was issued free as a carer pass, we get free fasspass cards when we go to legoland, chessington etc...