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Hello whothehellisthis.

Normally we talk about fruit and vegetables. Well, sometimes. If you turn up here you have to eat a lot and exercise.

100x? Bbbee?

I have exaggerated the stress element and they think its emotional and recommend some councelling. He is not stressed during school holidays and its not a social thing he's popular and has lots of friends.

if you write they have an obliagtion to act - write to senco and cc to head

I seem to be saying this a lot atm to various people, but would you consider taking him out of school?

100x? Bbbee?

I have exaggerated the stress element and they think its emotional and recommend some councelling. He is not stressed during school holidays and its not a social thing he's popular and has lots of friends.

Hmm. Not one in in your neck of the woods annoyingly. But they do have sub-centres.

is there a way that the stress is obviously related to reading adn writing?

do YOU think he is dyslexic?

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They are being lazy MrsC. I think you may need to look outside of the school tbh. But you should perhaps? And definitely go and talk to Senco, make an appointment, and tell her you want her to refer him to Ed Psych.

Is that BBee? LOL. I said hello, I said things about F&V.

lol - calling twice sounded desperate - I thought whothehell was one of you?

have considered taking him out many times, he goes through phases, its not been too bad at the moment. They are aware and head insists they talk about him all the time, I have been on their case but they just do not think he is dselxic and I do, but clearly I am only his mother.

I will go in next week and insist on finally seeing an iep and the senco lady and be busy. I will.

lOL bbbe, yes I do think he is, I think he has to work very hard to muddle along with the bulk of the work, he always has but now he is ten he has learnt strategies and manages but he should do better. Conceptually it is there but he is slow and doesn't concentrate well and dh was dslexic and dyspraxic and blah blah and so on it goes.

Well done. It will be a start.

I always thought someone would turn up and say, about ds2, 'not to worry, this is what we'll do' and they just never did. That's the only reason I'm being bossy.

teacher said he would probably never be very academic. He said that.

Not good enough.

Though he might need some help through the system, so he can go on to be the great person he's going to be.

but I will deal with it

Thank you for kind words

Blimey, I am crying now, its so emotional isn't it, when I think of him trying so bloody hard every day.

You are a hero.

It's a bit of a struggle though MrsC. We shall take turns in the night air together. And BBee will advise us, in one of her many guises.

lots of reluctaqnce the 'diagnose' as dyslexic as it then sets off a whole snowball of things and also it carries a lot of other implications.

British Psychological Definition:

"Dyslexia is evident when accurate and fluent word reading and/or spelling develops very incompletely or with great difficulty.. the problem is severe and persistent despite appropiate learning opportunities- that is, learning opportunities which are effective for the great majority of children."

BPS, 1999

quote it.

Oh don't cry.

Yes, it's really tough. But you know how bright he is, and you know how he uses that intelligence to help him cope and find his way through. It isn't easy though. Don't cry. It'll be okay.

And look at the Dyslexia Action link, under the parent bit and read their 'checklist'. Print it out, see how many you can tick and take it in with you.

DfES 2003

"a KEY MESSAGE FROM THE RESEARCH REPORT IS THAT if the identified childrenin a school are not, on average, achieveing at least twice the normal rate of progress through the school's existing Wave 3 literacy provision, it may be appropriate to re-evaluate what is being offred."

you must not cry - he is lucky to have you and you are doing this.

you are great.

yes, it will be ok, I hope, thanks. Its just the thought of his efforts. He didn't tell me that he had to do extra spellings on a friday afternoon last year until easter, and this was while the others did drama or had free time. I made a fuss and they dropped it the last few weeks of term but it makes me so angry that we don't know what goes on.

Have stopped crying now. It wasn't noisy.

we need letter to senco and state clearly that you have not been informed and therefore not been able to assist with interventiuons put in place. This is contrary to good practice guidelines.