Does a dyslexia diagnosis mean my son will have a statement?

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And if it does what will this mean for us and him?

Thank you for any info you're able to give, very new to this.

Not in my experience.

Dd got a diagnosis and nothing has changed. No statement, etc. because she's bright and not behind she gets no extra support, no extra time in sats, etc.

I queried this again when she started secondary school and they said she either carried on as normal or only other option was to go into remedial classes. Which for someone who'd passed the 11plus she didn't didnt.

I guess if your ds is behind you can ask for one.

I asked dd's old primary school for her to go on class action as she was behind in year 3. They said they'd do it and never did. We just worked with her at home to get her up to speed.

A diagnosis is separate from a statement. You have to apply for a statement once you have a diagnosis. From what I can gather (we are considering applying for one, though not for dyslexia), they are not very easy to get.

He is somewhat behind (just about to enter year 4) which is why I'm wondering what will happen. He only has a year left at this school before moving on which is why I was trying to figure out now what might be happening.

No.
They would be on school's sen register and (hopefully) have their needs carered for in school.Many children with dyslexia are able to achieve highly with appropriate support.

What does the paperwork you've got with the diagnosis say? When my daughter was diagnosed the paperwork included some strategies that might help her and also specific areas of learning that she might find difficult. Lots of these were simple things that a good class teacher would easily be able to implement and/or take into account.

I would go through the paperwork and highlight anything that is particularly relevant and share this both with his new class teacher and the SENCO. I would keep checking what is being done within school and do a lot a leg work and research myself. The provision for special needs in schools is extremely variable and many teachers and SENCOs have a very poor understanding of the different ways that dyslexia can impact on learning.

I would also contact an organisation like Dyslexia Action or British Dyslexia Association for ongoing advice and support.

Statements are being replaced by EHC plans from September although there is a long change over phase.

Statements are going, but currently there are very few children who have statements and they would be the ones with substantial needs and 1-1 support.

IME as a secondary teacher, a child who has dyslexia usually just has a note to teachers on the school database saying that they have dyslexia and they may attend a literacy group.

Thank you this is helpful since obv school is closed at the moment. His writing at the end of year 3 was 2b- I know this is below expected but just how behind is he?

A 2b is the "expected" for the end of Year 2 so he is a year behind in writing. This certainly wouldn't be sufficient for a statement in my authority ( I had a girl who was level 2B across the board at the end of year 6 who was refused as she was deemed to have made too much progress!!) but would certainly warrant additional support. What extra support has he been receiving to date?

None so far :( And since this is his final year there I wonder whether they will bother tbh. Not feeling confident which is why I wondered whether a statement would force their hand iyswim.

Was the diagnosis initiated by the school or by yourself? If the school thought an assessment was necessary then hopefully they will do something about the result. If however you had a private assessment they MIGHT ignore it. Obviously they shouldn't and you might just need to push but, whilst 12 months behind isn't desperately bad, it is enough to suggest that additional support is needed.

Nope.
Ime it changes nothing.
In fact paying for a private EP assessment - even though it dx our son as severely dyslexic - just pissed the HT off!
What it did do though was spur me into action...we did ait, rrt and tinsley house with ds and the results have been fantastic :)
Also, check out engagingeyes.co.uk.
Good luck x

It was a private assessment. Not completely without concerns from school but they seemed to fob us off a little bit with bigger problems at the school (small school, just been put into special measures, head teacher on long term sick, poor staff attendence- doesn't sound great does it?). We had family reasons to suspect dyslexia.

....to put my post in context my son was a level 1 for reading and writing and a 2 for maths in year 3 :(
But - apparently - this was not seen as "bad enough" for intervention.
You are your child's best and on,y advocate, but please don't expect the school to help your child.
They don't have the resources, or knowledge.
Most teachers get an afternoon training on sen.
It's shameful.

To make you feel a bit better, 2 levels is good progress for each year. He could therefore achieve 3c in year 4, 3a in year 5 and 4b in year 6. This would be possible and even if he gets 4c it is not a disaster. You do not says what his other levels are, eg maths. Additionally a school with these problems is probably not ensuring its children make good progress. I would be far more worried about the quality of the school and the teaching he is likely to receive. I would suggest a statement would be out of the question at this stage.

It's virtually impossible to get an SEN. The best you can hope for is to get on the SN register which is different. All that really does though is mark the problem and mean they should have some targets/ strategies written down. As the others have said though it's all changing next term!

The Ed Psych assessment's mighty useful in that I'm guessing it shows a spiky profile - so a big dip between strengths and weaknesses? So you can take that as evidence to ask how they're going to address it. Really though I've found all that matters is a good class teacher. My son's just had a great one in yr5. I had a meeting with her at the start of the year where we went through his specific problems and she explained how I could help him/ she was planning to work with him. She also talked to him to explain why some things were harder for him than his friends, but that he could do anything if he kept trying. Basically though she was just a good teacher doing what a good teacher should do - so knowing each child in her class and working out how to help them. So I hope you get a good teacher! Definitely worth going to talk to them with your diagnosis though. It's a lot harder for them to bat you away if you have a proper assessment report. Good luck!