anyone who has been through the process of getting help for their dyslexic child, please could you give me some tips?

[gigglewitch]

ds1 appears to be horribly dyslexic. Some will say that he is, whilst others will tiptoe around the 'label' and avoid it. However. We are having a review at school next week, basically i want to push the process along a little to see whether they can go for Action Plus rather than School Action - and whether this process is likely to lead to him having a statement at some point?
Any help on moving things forward without pssing anyone off would be welcome.

Statement access varies between lea's, see if you can chat to other mums or your local parent partnership to get some awareness of what the situation is where you are.

Surpriasingly, I have had to battle for every bit of asd help ds1 has, but they offered to put a dyslexia teacher in for 8 weeks - the lea sorted that!.

It's about paperwork and knowing the rules I think. There are lots of dyslexia places about- friends use dore (sp) and bibic (the latter covers dyslexia but also other issues, don't be put off by that)

Ask the lea fo the sn code of conduct to be sent to you as well.

Oh- look at the ipsea website

thanks peachy, off to write list of stuff to do and get all that info. Tis confusing to know what to do in what order.

ooh thanks for that gem. had never heard of them but the site looks like a mine of info

help...

gigglewitch, if you're in Kent I could help. Dyslecic ds has just started grammar school - prepare yourself for lots of head banging but always remember - IT'S WORTH IT - if you don't fight the corner for your dyslexic child, it's highly likely that no-one else will.

It's highly unlikely that you will get a statement for "just" dyslexia anymore unfortunately unless things have changed again. I had DS2 assessed privately a couple of years ago and even though his results showed him to be what I would consider profoundly dyslexic, he was still only considered at school action stage by his school.

We're now in Australia so things are obviously different, but the things that have made a real difference to DS2 (now 9) are firstly, learning to type - we've used the Typequick computer programme, and secondly a literacy programme called MULTILIT (making up for lost time in literacy). MULTILIT is a Macquarie University programme run through the school - I volunteer as one of their parent helpers. I have found it very effective and you can do it at home.

I always tried to make it clear at DS2s UK school that I wasn't expecting them to do it all, I was happy to help and/or fund resources if they could just tell me what he needed; I never got very far though as they seemed reluctant to acknowledge that he needed more than they could provide. I would definitely second swedishmum in saying that you have to fight their corner. I have put DS2 in a private school here as most schools won't even use the word dyslexia and the public schools offer little support (I pulled my older, dyslexic, son out of one school after he was ridiculed for his poor spelling in front of the class). Good luck.

thanks for the advice ladies

unfortunately swedishmum I'm nowhere near kent, we're in the northwest about 12 miles from liverpool.