SEN Tribunal advice

[Nagr]

Hi,

I am new to this forum and this is my first post, so apologies if I don't make myself very clear.
My son is 7.5 yrs old, have a diagnosis of ASD and goes to a special school and because of lack of progress in the current school, we asked for reassessment and change of placement. In the annual review last year in Mar-2010, school advised that they can't meet his needs because of his severe speech delay, behaviour problems etc, yet LA is insisting to keep him in the same school or suggesting a school which is totally inappropriate for him. We are due to receive final statement by the end of next week and it looks like we'll be going to the tribunal. We want ABA funding for our son who is making good progress in a part time home ABA programme funded by us.
Could anyone suggest a good solicitor? Does anyone have any statistics on surrey tribunal or could advise if I can find this information somewhere? Any advice on how to prepare for the tribunal will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance.
N.

Nagr,

SOS:SEN are Surrey based and could well help re Tribunal - have you contacted them to date?. IPSEA are also helpful but are very difficult to contact by phone.

Have no personal experience of ABA so cannot comment. You may want to also post on the Special Needs: children part of the MN board as that receives far more daily traffic than this one.