Tracks of my tiers

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Morning all.

They won't be able to do it except face to face. But they could be raring to go when they go back (still expecting the 18th!) and if they are closed for longer they might bring him in to test (there will be some pupils in the building throughout). They couldn't put support in place before he goes back anyway so I don't think it matters that the test is done now, just that you know it is actually planned.

I can second that, actually. A lot of 'cool' kids get extra time and various other help, for lots of different reasons, and it doesn't seem to cause any real stigma. Support for Learning teachers are (generally) pretty discreet too, so it's often not obvious who's being 'helped'.

It runs in our family too @Bikingbear. My dad and sister and my niece are all dyslexic. The school assessed my son and they’ve said he is dyslexic but he’s good at hiding the problems he has with keeping up in class by coping from his best friend 😬. School don’t seem very interested in providing any additional help even though they always say they will when I ask. My niece had the same problem. She has been given help in high school though as it’s not obvious and embarrassing help. She is given printed hand outs so she doesn’t have to take notes and low key things like that. I think it’s very common and not so embarrassing now maybe. My sister paid for a dyslexic specific tutor for a few months even though she really couldn’t afford it and that helped.
I found in lockdown my son found it much easier to concentrate as there were no distractions like at school and I could explain it to him instead of him having to read problems etc. He’s actually very bright and verbally very good at understanding/ explaining complex things but when it’s on paper he shuts down.

Not sure if that’s helpful or not 😊

The dyslexia assessment takes a while, his in class work was examine so that could be done at home but the rest of it took 3 months or so.

My son was not embarrassed to be told he was dyslexic, he was relived. He still gets frustrated when he gets behind in class but he says it’s better because he knows he’s not just stupid and his brain just works in a different way.

Took me years to accept dyslexia. But it's definitely runs in my family.

Unfortunately DS2 (just turned 4) provided plenty of distractions during home school. If it was just DS1 I could probably cope but the two of them is like - oh no.

Tiers on my pillow www.mumsnet.com/Talk/scotsnet/4123909-tiers-on-my-pillow
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Hope that's OK.

@WaxOnFeckOff I know, I actually said level to someone the other day and they said ‘it’s tier’, I didn’t correct them back, every little helps

Good job @bytheloch its not that I'm wedded to the perfectly brilliant England and Wales system, I'm just a thrawn cow, as is well known 😁😉

RaraRachel, educational psychologists aren't qualified to diagnose anything and are probably best kept away from children. CAMHS diagnose.

The consultative role of educational psychologists involves wasting everyone's time in endless meetings (including over stretched CAMHS staff), pursuing their own research interests, (an EP actually said to us that our DC's case would make an 'an interesting wee research project' for her). Oh, and talking nonsense about My World Triangles, being patronising, displaying an extraordinary lack of empathy, seeing trauma as the explanation for all unwanted behaviours while failing to recognise trauma suffered by ASN children in primary schools and recommending that they are kept in 'environmental containers', i.e. grim cell like rooms, to make them self regulate. Apologies, I've gone off topic now but hate to see educational psychologists suggested as part of the solution to any child's issues.

BikingBear, hope your son is able to get his dyslexia assessment and the help he requires.

Steam pudding your description of Ed Psychologist pretty much sums up my experience.
Waste of time in nursery, the observed his lack of concentration lower down the school. I attended a meeting and came away thinking "you get paid how much to tell me that"!!

Incidentally he seemed to be much better this last term. I can't decide if it's a maturity thing, a top notch teacher, or the different class layout - maybe a mix of all 3.
But this years teacher is ace. Hes much happier going to school too.

I'm thinking I should chase that dyslexia assessment up, even in lockdown. They much actually have more time to do it. With less kids in school. Hmmm.

DS3 is a delayed start to P1 so still in nursery (starts P1 August this year). He is 5yo and EP has seen him via Near Me appointment TAC meeting. Her role did appear fairly vague, but she did recommend an enhanced transition which is due to begin this month (!!!). He is delayed/disordered in speech so regularly attends SaLT appointments. All this Covid 19 stuff has seriously mucked up his progress.

Good luck Bikingbear hopefully your son also gets the provision he needs to manage his dyslexia. DH was diagnosed in school with dysgraphia years ago, but was called stupid before then.

Is dyslexia assessment all done by the school or are there any other groups involved @Bikingbear -
I had a bad experience with school and found that when I went independently to comm paed, OT etc, things were much easier, some schools are excellent i hear.

All of one side of my family is dyslexic, bypassed dc1 but not sure about dc2 yet.

Well it looks like the 18th of January isn't going to be back to school day...cabinet meeting tomorrow to discuss tightening restrictions and prolonging school closures are mentioned

Sigh. I don't know why they ever said the 18th tbh

I would have more respect if they said we haven't got a bloody clue.

@StatisticallyChallenged

Sigh. I don't know why they ever said the 18th tbh

They didn't want MH to plummet at Christmas when people often have MH issues.

We need to include this conversation on the new thread before it locks us out 7 posts to go.

I suspect there's a psychological element to it - they say a week and you think that's not so bad and feel like a plonker objecting to it, but they say three months and people are up in arms as that's too long to manage. It just feels like they're asking less of people if they do it in small chunks, even though the net effect is the same. Of course they've done it so many times now no-one believes them anyway.

My sis fully believed the week. The economy can't take it, the folk in NMW can't work from home, they need the schools open.
Does the SG actually care - no.
Is there plenty on UC with no kids who could so that job - yes.

Yep, just read about it looking more and more like an extension. We have had day from hell with the 5yo today, no idea how we will get through these weeks looming ahead😫 am sure there's loads of us feeling like this though. It's grim.

Will anxiously be watching the news tomorrow 😬

I think they know if they'd said 6 weeks like NI folk would have lost the plot

Yip my sis nearly lost the plot when I said they'd be shut to Easter, Feb half term if we're lucky.