I don't know whether I am already so jaded that I distrust everyone who is employed by the LEA in any role, or whether I am right to be sceptical.
DS is 4.1 yo. He was diagnosed with ASD at 3.6 yo, and has a sever speech and language delay. We have been doing a home based ABA programme with him for 9 months. He has made amazing progress. Some of the skills he is learning are transferring well to his pre school setting (he does 6 hours at pre school a week term time, and 20 hours of ABA at home a week, 48 weeks a year) eg sorting, matching, puzzles. When we started ABA he was severely developmentally delayed across the board. He still is, but less so (save for speech and language, where he is still 11-20 months).
LEA ed psych went to see him at pre-school. She observed him and commented on his matching, sorting and puzzle skills. His support worker told her that it was all learnt as a result of specifically targeted teaching through ABA, not something he had picked up in a way that a NT child would. The ed psych however didn't really take this on board though, and gave every impression of believing that he would be able to learn through other ways if he had come this far with matching, sorting etc. We don't have a report as yet, it could be six weeks.
Am I being unfair in thinking that the ed psych did not want to acknowledge the positive impact of ABA because they think that we will then make a case for funding?
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