Hi,
I'm really struggling to get support for my 7 year old (y3) daughter. She has a diagnosis of dyslexia. We had a private ed psych assessment 6 months ago as school finally agreed there were significant difficulties but said that they wouldn't be able to fund as she was coping and behaviour was good.
She scored very highly (gifted) in certain areas, and very poorly in others (mostly phonological awareness), leading to the dx.
By the time the report was done, it was SATS time so y2 didn't put in any further support. I met the y3 teacher and senco early in the autumn term. I was repeatedly told they couldn't help much 'as there's no money and she's not as bad as some children'. However, they did offer a small group typing session and that they would try a 'word mat'.
At parents evening yesterday, I was apologised to by class teacher who said they hadn't implemented anything yet, apart from a withdrawal group for literacy with a TA. I was shown this work, which wasn't marked and was well below DDs usual standard (apart from the spelling, which was normal for her).
Very little work has been marked in any book (making me think the teacher can't read it). Where it is marked, it is unhelpful ('use full stops' for example). I showed the teacher many pages in which, for example, DD had made a simple copying mistake many, many times (k and m the wrong way round in km), which, if corrected at the beginning of the work, might have enabled her to copy the right thing 20 times rather than embedding the wrong thing. I was just told 'it's hard with 30 children'.
I don't know what to ask for now. We do additional support at home but DD hates it. She's tired and wants to do other things. I don't blame her! She is certainly not reaching her potential in anyway and is beginning to feel she is 'rubbish' at school.
Does anyone have any useful advice? Thanks
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Sleeperandthespindle · 15/11/2016 06:46
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