To think that some parents like to label their children as dyslexic/dyscalculic/dyspraxic or as kinaesthetic learners....

[MrsSchadenfreude]

...rather than accept the fact that their child might not be particularly bright/academic, and by so doing this detracts from children who genuinely are eg dyslexic?

hmmmm, see your points..... but I think those people sans dx (as is ds3 this week ) are still being seen and in the system, no? which is dfferent from nothing but parental assertion

I knew from a few weeks old that something just wasn't right but the response from his paediatrician was I've seen worse and we were basically sent away. At school the EP didn't want to know because his reading age was above his chronological age so we spent many long years outside the system trying to get in and I'm a SENCO and know the system!

That is really bad mrz

But unfortunately not unusual

The system should be changed...so that people that need help, get help....but it all boils down to money, yet again, doesn't it....sigh.....!

Cory makes a good point. DS1 is severely autistic with severe learning disabilities. It took us almost 2 years from first concerns to diagnosis.

In that time I was told by one bunch of 'professionals' (I use the term loosely) that his lack of speech was my fault (I was told I must be talking over him, then told I must not be talking to him ). Another health care professional seemed to think I had MSBP.

Oh and when he was finally diagnosed I found myself being referred to as a mother in denial for insisting that my son could benefit from therapy. WTF -so in denial I;d been seeking a diagnosis for 2 years

Well, given that it took over 2 years to get an assessment and as dd2 has a dyslexia index of 1.43 and it needs to be 1.45 to be severe and therefore statementable she is left with no support at all except me. I don't see many mothers queuing up to swap with me. Dyslexia is a real and very distressing condition - it breaks my heart every time I hold my child while she cries out the frustration of not being able to communicate properly despite her above average intelligence. I would much rather she were just less able and happy with it.

I havent read the whole thread, but to respond to the OP, YAB very unreasonable. Yesterday my ds who is 12 threw a real strop because he didn't want to write a note for the milkman, ended with him in tears, he is so ashamed of his handwriting which in truth is that of a bright 5 year old. If he didn't have a statement which-finally- has got him a laptop- this would be his response to any time he had to write. But if you spoke to him you would think, bright articulate boy with excellent general knowledge and you would be right. If he hadn't had the DX (dyspraxia) he would, I'm sure be using all sorts of strategies to avoid school work and probably end up excluded. And, I might add, he only got the statement because we were able to make a convincing case that his problems were impacting hugely emotionally, as the measured difference between his performance and ability wasn't great enough, strictly speaking. So, no, dyapraxia not a condition of less than bright children of pushy middle class parents.

Riven, by the time we left the lad had 3 pc's freom various sources and so much cash that he'd put £1500 a year into an ISA

and a first from all the extra time in essays but i didn't say that honestly