Help in school for child with dyslexia

[Laura0806]

Just wondering what your experiences are of this. My child in yr 3 has a diagnosis of dyslexia and a speech and language impairment. He is still however at the average level in the class, although could be doing better as illustarated by his general IQ which is above average (struggles with spelling, comprehension, story writing and sequencing in maths). The SENCO says that he is not entiteld to any help as the code of practice dictates than he is not actually struggling or something to that effect ( Im not au fait with the code of practice). However, I was just interested in other peoples experiences. if your child has dyslexia or another SEN but is still around the average level overall ( but with specific weaknesses), have they received any help?

So you think the child should have to be tested to see if they require help in a test?

how else do you establish a cognitive profile?

You need a statement from all teaching staff and examples of work produced, and a description of how it was produced.

Charis this is primary so there is likely only one teacher.

TheFullCircle the teacher will have plenty of normal assessment data to support the need for additional time/scribe/rest breaks including things like standardised reading and spelling scores.

You need statements from all the teaching staff that come into contact with that pupil, TAs and so on, along with examples of work the normal way of working, and the work without the normal way of working. In our school it is called the "exam access portfolio". It is a HUGE piece of admin you have to put together for application to the exam board.

You need scores as well, but very specific scores from the SENCO, or similar, not from any outside agency.

That's my point Charis in a typical primary the child is unlikely to come in contact with more than ONE teacher.

In primary there are no exam boards to send information to ...

In primary there are no exam boards to send information to ...

I thought we were talking about SATS, etc.

We are and there are no exam boards or requirement to send off written statements or standardised scores to anyone

what concerns me is placing all the responsibility for that decision onto teachers and Heads and only using "normal way of working" as your criteria base.

Like everything else in education, it is irrelevant whether it concerns people or not!

Remember these aren't exams ... They are part of the child's summative assessment.