SEND - children’s needs to be reassessed from year 6 2029?

My child's like this, so I do understand.

I'm not 100% sure on all my feelings about it to be honest, but call a spade a spade, we're talking about eugenics here.

As much as my son does get weekly swimming at his SENd school, and it is linked to his sensory input needs, it stands to reason that he’d need more swimming instruction than someone without his cognitive difficulty.

His swimming instructor has put a lot of work into giving children like mine safety in water strategies, because firstly that takes longer than most other children, and secondly our son and others like him have risk taking behaviours/lack of understanding of risk, and need those strategies.

There is no local swimming pool with the service we would need to teach him the same things. SENd sessions are play based, they’re not for learning, and standard lessons aren’t accessible for him.

Last summer he absconded (wasn’t with us at the time), and jumped into a lake. His safety in water skills potentially saved his life, because he knew to push himself back to the surface as soon as his chin went under, and kept doing that until he was taken out of the water. He doesn’t know how to feed himself or go the toilet, but he knew that.

He was 8 at the time. Most 8 year olds understand that water = danger, ours didn’t. That, amongst physical and sensory needs, is one of the reasons why they need weekly swimming lessons.

You want mostly women to be entrapped by lifelong caring responsibilities toward adult children in nappies who attack them? (Yes I know not all ASD is on this level - but many are including children I know)

They mean eugenics

It wasn’t even experienced teachers-you just needed a psychology degree and 2 years of teaching to do the Ed Psych MSc.

Now, you don’t even need to be a teacher but need a psychology degree, a couple of years working with children (could be an LSA) but then it’s an extremely competitive doctorate to be accepted on which is 3/4 years with a massive thesis. I think they did it to bring it inline with the clinical psychology level of training.

If they went back to just a one year course, I reckon 90% of teachers would try escape the classroom to do it!!

My child was dx with autism at the age of 4, it was very clear that he was from a very young age.
No amount of amazing parenting was going to remove the autism.

Yes everything is a lot more competitive

in the past were there more funded schemes opportunities perhaps

Haven’t tradespeople always communicated and done their own invoices?

Where does it say they're curtailing specialist schools and support for those with semh? In fact it can't say that as they're recategorising the areas of send need.

I haven’t read the posters posts so there may be more than the part you quoted but I agree societal changes/expectations have impacted on nd people . In some ways for the better for example online communities can be a positive for people who struggle with face to face communication. But in some ways it’s harder, the pressure of confirmation in school, needing qualifications/ further education even for jobs that in the past wouldn’t have required it.
Theres children who in the past would have not really have engaged in school but been able to learn a trade /work outdoors and found a way to live /provide for themselves that now have barriers to doing so.

Massively ...the correct resources would massively help and save money across a lifetime

Plus taking private profit making providers out of the system

Sorry if someone has already mentioned it but it has been made harder to train as an EP in recent years too. There used to be a conversion course that experienced teachers could do but no such thing exists any more!

I hope that changes. As a teacher with lots of SEND knowledge and over two decades experience, I'd love to train as an EP.

That's a stretch. You have no idea what any new legislation may say and since eotas is only available to those whose needs can't be met in any school, including specialist provisions, the criteria to access eotas is pretty unlikely to change.

Wasn't me saying this but how your son is educated will help him (or not) function in society.
Oh look! We need better education for children with SEN, not worse! Who'd have thought it!

Absolutely all of this

On the genetic front, maybe they will eventually figure out how to spot ASD reliably genetically and in the next 20-30 years they will be sequencing most babies genes. There will eventually be progress.

"I don’t deny there’s a genetic component to it but am pointing out that environmental factors make a huge difference to its impact and the individual’s ability to function in society."

So you are saying my son is severely autistic because of his upbringing?

As well as the "lots of children weren't even IN school" that I posted above I'm also fairly sure that the modern world has done a number on a lot of children with specific learning disabilities. ASD - you can't get as many jobs that are outdoors and don't involve too many people. ADHD - very active jobs are less common, manual labour is less common. Dyslexia - if you are a plumber now you can't just be a plumber. You also have to be a social media expert, book keeper, letter writer, and invoice creater.

I don’t deny there’s a genetic component to it but am pointing out that environmental factors make a huge difference to its impact and the individual’s ability to function in society.

Autism is usually genetic. I doubt any of that is the reason for the rise in cases.

Are you suggesting taking away disabled children's rights to a full time education?

Will these reforms actually save money in the long term?

It looks like there is more pressure on schools, as any child with SEN needs will qualify for an education support plan?