Ed. Psych and Dysgraphia

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My daughter has been to see an OT about a potential diagnosis of dysgraphia.

They've suggested that she sees an Ed Psych.

My Dd is at a private school who have found an ed pysch to come to school for the best part of an afternoon to talk to school and us and then give us his findings and allow us to ask questions. For this, the fee would be £628.

I went to see our (lovely) gp to see whether we could go the Nhs route. She doesn't know but is going to find out.

Does anyone here know? £628 is hard for us to find on top of everything else that January brings.

If the Nhs route exists for kids at prep school is there any reason why the £628 method is significantly better than the Nhs?

Many thanks for any help

Good luck but I suspect you won't have any joy via gp. Our LA gave ds' OT(NHS) the same answer as they did us, that they would not fund an Ed Psych for a private school child and as it was a learning issue not a health one not available on NHS either. However we got a very full report by going private(much mroe so than others on here whose dc are at a state school and had it funded and even some who have paid) and felt we were the customer.