I was having a conversation earlier and was explaining how baffled I was about how bad mainstream schools are at implementing.
My personal experience, it has been down to nothing more than sheer laziness coupled with a totally lack of understanding of DS needs. My LEA actually handed my DS support on a plate (at the begining) gave him support that most people would never had received and did not even have to come out of the schools budget, agreed to a water-tight VERY specific statement and were actually quite supportive, all SENco had to do was keep a record of progress from the SLT and the usual IEP, most of which would have been done with the SLT...but she couldnt even be bothered to do this (no IEP or monitoring of any kind since he started the school), then lied about it at the hearing, which the panel were having none of.
I am interested in finding out just how many parents feel that the difficulties they face with their childs school is down to a lack of knowledge, but once they listen to you and take it on board, try and make the effort/changes OR as I said, just down to "I really cant be bothered with all this" attitude no matter how much you point out the problems or benefits of your child needing to receive xxx of support or have a good statement?
Once all my issues are over (however, also currently helping a couple of mums from DS2 school) I would like to help out with some volunteering/campainging, and it would appear that schools not implementing is a major issue, but why this is so is where I want to start my research.
Many thanks.
Here are some suggested organisations that offer expert advice on special needs.
SN children
Lack of experience/understanding or plain old lazy
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