DS2 has SALT and OT written into his statement. Previously local NHS discharge policy meant he had no support. The LA had to be threatened with JR but have now commissioned therapists. They were not appointed in time to inform short term target setting.
DS2 had an IEP review this week. The advice of SALT and OT had not been incorporated into the targets. I assumed the school had not yet received written targets. Turns out the school has had written copies of reports and specific targets for months.
I found this out by accident when the OT visited DS2, on the day before the review was due and after we had received a copy of the proposed new IEP, to see how he had got on - only to be told by the TA that the school had only delivered half the provision on parental advise . The OT told me she had given the school and the LA a copy of the report/targets on her initial visit. She had advised the school to stop the 45 mins per week touch typing, which was the only provision, and replaced it with 3 new targets.
OT then phoned LA and LA then phoned the school. A new IEP was written and a single paper copy of the new IEP was brought to the review and read out by the teacher. The review was strictly limited to 30 mins and the new targets were at the very end and so were rushed through. OT targets had been added but not SALT. The CT said that she does not have to put the targets in the IEP as they are in the SALT report - the one we are not allowed to see. It appears that the school is deliberately with-holding these reports so that we do not notice that SALT and OT targets are not being incorporated into IEP - we call it that but it is really short term targets relating to long term objectives in his statement.
We have asked school for copies of the reports and they have replied that "as the [SALT and OT] are external to the school and county have provided their services, I'm afraid you will need to contact the LA".
I know that the school has been provided with copies but have not shared them with parents. The new OT targets have presumably been cut and pasted from the OT report ffs.
I am so stressed I am either going to have a stroke or go 'postal' [black humour]. WWYD? (I am almost ready to call an emergency review and go back to tribunal for indi placement (he has an offer) before the nightmare of year 6).
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