you are so right phoenix, it is really nice to see how his other classmates are so fond of him, some of them are nearly mothering him at the momemt. If he goes to the centre he will get 6 hours intensive therapy a day. If he goes to school he will get 2-3 hours a day. If he goes to school, then it becomes a 9-10 hours a day for him (poor DS). At the moment his SALT is going to school with him everyday and trying to put things in place for him. Problem is centre is all special need children, so he will not get the interaction with NT kids and there is no guarantee that next year he will be able to go back to the school he is in at the moment because of school place shortages in UAE. It's really good idea to wait till x-mass to see how things go, he is settled, we don't really want to interupt that.

I can see how the school must be finding it difficult for your DS, what type of things are they setting up for him? Is he going to get extra lessons for different things?

how much therapy would he getthough from her..

were gettig fair bit of input from slat and specialist teacher to help his class teacher and Lsa ,learn how to teach him as quite understandly having a child that can not talk and has a receptive delay as well as mld is differnt kettle of fish to them .The non verbal side being the hardest.

hat about givng it to xmas then yu will have som idear of how it is going ?.How old is ds school mornings therapy afternoon does sound good comprimise its done me world of good see how ds class mates are accepting hm

Sorry, I did not complete my last post. DD is refusing to go to nursery at the moment, so got distracted by her cry. Although the school seems nice, DS's SALT seems concern about his education there. She doesnot think he is learning from his environment (this is the same salt telling us that he has no learning difficulties), think he will benefit from intensive speech therapy for another year and then start school. It has taken us long to find a good school and DS seems quite happy there. We want him to go to school and then have therapy in the afternoon as he needs that social interaction. Oh, it's so confusing, I can't help thinking DS's SALT is saying that because she has opened up this new centre and wants more clients. She defintely did not say it before this new speech centre was sorted. Sorry for the rant, we just don't know what we should do.

Phoenix, good to hear things are settling down. We are trying to push for DS to have one to one support as well, but we will have to pay for it (we were expecting this as it's a private school). The school is looking actively from what I hear, so hopefully we will get somebody soon. We will then have to arrange for DS's SALT to train that person. DS seems to like school, every morning he is quite happily putting on his school uniform, carrying his own bag. His SALT says she is worried that with somebody like DS who has no behavioural or sensory problem, the school will leave him to one side and not bother to include him. I have already asked for a going home book, don't know how I make sure he is participating as I can't stay with him, he will definitely start misbehaving if I do (thinks mummy will protect him from everything). He is not suited for a special need school as apart from speech delay he does not really have any other issues at the moment. How do we ensure he is learning like all the other children at school? Can I really trust the school that much?

Have finally put picture of ds an dd up taken his first day.

Glad everyone is settling into school .Tiredmummy of 2 my ds is only 4.2 as well one of the youngest in the year

We nowhave lunch time sorted so I can finally hve time to myself .Have ameeting ith thenew salt tomorrow m going to be pushing for ACC since it is now accepted that ds is not going to tak am taking copy of report in just in case .And top of the good news we have got a 2 day assement at Ican to help woith receptive delay also going to belooking at theschool as a option for wen ds is older even though would mean a move for all of us

Bubbla, my DS is 4.2. He has settled in well at school, we have had 3 weeks and only one day he had a little cry as he wanted to come back home. I am not sure he is making any friends yet as he does not really talk about school or mention anybody's name. I am not sure if he knows the name of anybody yet. His teacher is making an effort to talk to him directly and he is listening to her and the TA, but I am not sure yet if he is learning anything there.

Good to hear that your DS is playing with his friend, my DS did that at the last play date and made us very proud.

phoenix its nice to hear that he has some friends in class and children are really good with him

lets hope dinner time gets sorted out the school sound really good in trying to get him what he needs lets hope it can all be in place soon so you can relax in confidence

ds seems to be really liking school and seems to be getting on well the other children really like him and he seems really happy

his first sleep over went really well both boys were very well behaved and played well had bath together and bed top and tail ds has melatonin anyway but he actually slept in his own bed last night with his friend

his friend is good as his 6 mths older and understands my ds so he is patient with him so im hoping by having him stay it will strengthen there friendship in school also as thats what ds will need for them moments his not doing so well

ds is going well the lsa and teahcer are both on training next week on language course so fingers crossed that should help.And having been in clas is lovely to wtc how some of the children are with him definte little friends and some are even signing to

Dinner time is a issue but working on that one the dinner lady is rubbish wont sign etc and he was ment share a lsa with 1 other for lunch but poor lsa needs to be watching the other child more as she wanders of etc and poor ds is getting lef on his own in big noisy hall.

well nearing the end of the first school week he is really enjoying school he didnt want to have 2 days off for weekend lol

he has his school friend staying here tonight my friends little boy is in same class and he is stopping here the night so will be good to see how that goes they seem to get on really well with each other so fingers crossed

tiredmummy your ds has d came along way from what you write there

i found my ds changed alot once he got his melatonin the sleep was huge issue with sensory and behaviour issues

maybe you could do personal passport on communication and understanding from his view ds has no other real issues but he can obviously come across as defiant or rude doesnt understand his spoken to if speaking to whole class, needs to be told directly not asked , will always so no if doesnt understand whats asked i wanted all this written down also along with his sensory issues which are not apparent every day but obviously well may be one day in school and they can prepare and look out for this

so far his settled into school so much better than we thought and seems very popular with the other children he clearly stands out speech wise but luckily we gained a few speech sounds over school holidays so he doesnt sound so baby like now his words are clearer than they were

im really happy your ds has made so much progress though its so good to hear as last yr my ds was completely different boy too we would never have thought he'd be where he is now

i forget how old your ds is now?