South Australian teacher Wayne Jaeschke never thought he would end up homeschooling his third child.

But his daughter was just refusing to go to school, even after trying several different ones.

"The anxiety was probably the biggest thing behind the school refusal," Mr Jaeschke said.

"So it wasn't a not wanting to, it was really a not being able to situation."

Mr Jaeschke has great confidence in mainstream schools — his two older boys attend them — but he says they are mostly suited to neurotypical kids.

Noisy classrooms, timetables and teacher demands are not for everyone, because there is a "lack of agency" that "neurodiverse kids struggle with".

"I could see the impact it was having on her emotionally and on her wellbeing," Mr Jaeschke said of his daughter.

As a teacher, he has s

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