Roughly how long (educational psychologist)

[littlemiss06]

Roughly how long does it take for a report to come through from the lea educational psychologist after assessing a child?

DD was referred to the Ed Psych at school at the end of yr 4/start of yr 5. I'm trying to remember exactly how the process went. IIRC first the EP met dd briefly while she was in school seeing other pupils. Then a fortnight or so later she had a session with dd and a session with us (asking background questions eg did she meet development milestones as expected when younger, how did problems at school affect her at home, things like that).

Then she had another session with dd and later met us again to give feedback (I think the HT who was also SENCO was in that meeting?), perhaps a month further on, something like that. Then a final check in with dd & her teacher to see how the strategies put in place were working later that term.

She had a brief session with dd a few weeks ago to see how things were going (so roughly a year after all this took place) and we were invited in again for some final feedback which also in our case included some suggestions on helping dd with her secondary transfer.

I think we got a letter after the first meeting quite quickly, but then after the second meeting she'd mentioned putting things in writing for us but didn't, though dd did get a letter herself confirming the strategies that the EP had suggested she/her teacher could try out.

We emailed and she then sent us a copy of her report to school (so results of the various VR/NVR tests as well as other stuff).

HTH!

Thanks hun, she's been seen and had a letter from her, apparently she's had an assessment by the sounds of it as she was talking about having to copy patterns, remember things, read stuff, the Senco did say she would be having an assessment done so I was thinking this would be a seperate report outlining her educational ability? She wants to see her again, she also wants to see us next time as well, so do you think they will do a seperate report for the BAS assessment or save it till we have all the info?

That sounds the same as the assessment she did with dd. So the report we had was the results of those tests (remembering nos backwards and forwards, verbal reasoning, patterns etc) and then a summary of why she'd been referred and then what was going to happen next.

Thank you that helps a lot :-D