attainments? dyslexia advise please

[chonie]

hi, ive just come across this forum and wondered if anybody could help?
i have just had my sons school report, he is 6 in yr 1 and his attainments are
reading p8
writing p6
numeracy p8
All his teacher explained was that he was not yet reaching the targets of the national cirriculum... how far behind is he?
I have been concerned that he may be dyslexic since reception year, he has many of the charastic's and has speech difficulties. He has recently seen a educational psychologist and she has said he has many traits of being dyslexic and we now have another IEP in place and he will be reviewed by her again in december, she suggested more one to one work. He currently does some work in small groups, and he is making progress (although slow.
Im a little worried after meeting his new teacher for yr 2 as she has said their is less t.a help avalible, and she mentioned t.a hours? she said she would wait for him to settle in and then see if she thought he needed it.. (she made it sound like this would be hard to get?) so am i right in thinking i need to push them for this? at the moment he cant do much in school unless its one on one or in a small group. His hand writing has improved, but he is not yet reading or spelling cvc words.
obviously i have cut a long story short here, but hoping someone can help advise me x
thanks xxx

He is reading relatively slowly, and at a relatively low level - 1a at the moment. He is decoding, not guessing, although I think sometimes if the words aren't what he expects them to be from the context that that throws him. He can definitely always recognise high frequency words like "the" "and" "said" and his name, but almost anything else is fairly hit and miss. If I read him the passage he has no comprehension problems at all - to a very high level. As an example I read a midsummer night's dream to him, and he was laughing a long - repeating bits of Puck's speeches back to me verbatim. But reading level 5 ORT is a challenge...

KATTT we meet the needs of all children with or without an EP report or extra funding that a statement provides but it is very annoying that because we work hard and do a damn good job the children won't get a statement which may provide additional support.

It has got to the point our EP is recommending us to parents of children with SEN.

mrz

The system as it stands (and it may change soon) means that children who have the most severe needs have to fail, fail miserably and consistently, before they are helped.

We don't let children fail KATTT or we have failed.

And that mrz is why you are having trouble getting statements for your most needy children.

Hopefully the system will change soon.

I know why I just don't understand why I have to allow a child to fail for them to have their needs officially recognised by the LA.

can't help you there mrz.