I wonder if anyone has any experience with obtaining GCSEs for disabled children using the Alternative Assessment Evidence route?
My daughter has had Long Covid/CFS and POTS for 2.5 years. It affects her both physically and cognitively. Like all CFS she sometimes has better periods and sometimes has crashes.
In January she caught a virus and has been bedridden for 23 hours a day ever since.
she is due to sit her GCSES in just a few days.
Over the last couple of months we have reduced the number subjects she is taking down to just Maths and English. However she is still so poorly we really don't know how she will manage even these. She has extra time and rest breaks and is due to sit them at home, but I still don't think she will be fit enough to do them.
Have asked the school to look into Alternative Assessment Evidence as a way of her being awarded her GCSES based off her Mock results. They had never heard of it and are looking into it.
But with her exams just days away, it is causing huge stress for our DD which in turn is making her more ill, not knowing if she will be able to use this route.
As I understand it she should meet the criteria in that she has has the condition for more than 12 months and is not expected to recover anytime soon, it affects her physically and cognitively, she is a blue badge holder and has an Access Card to state she is disabled under the 2010 equality act. We can provide any amount of medical evidence for them.
Has anyone done this ??