Enough cause for an EHC Plan?

[ZoeandOllie]

Hi all

Our DS1 is age 8 and just started Year 4. He has dyslexia and has also received an ASD diagnosis over the summer holidays. We had an Ed-Psych report in the last year and they also think he has auditory processing disorder for which we are seeing the consultant next week.

Given his variety of issues, do any of you have enough experience to know whether we would be able to get an EHC Plan in place for him?

We understand his ASD is high functioning/aspergers end of the spectrum but we also suspect PDA. He is increasingly super anxious and whilst he conforms at school, and somehow holds it all together during the school day, it explodes out as soon as he gets home. He is now objectionable to the simplest of requests at home, i.e. brushing teeth or getting school clothes on causes an hour or more of trauma.

Our school has limited SEND resources to be able to offer him any more support and we don't know whether to move schools or not or whether this will cause even more anxieties for him.

Thanks in advance.

Yes absolutely. My son has asperger's and we got him a statement when he was 10. Earlier he gets help the better. I expected the outcome would be for him to stay on at his current, very good, primary school but with TSA support. Was a bit of a shock when recommendation was for him to move to one with a specialist department.

It was the best thing that could of happened, the difference they made in that one year meant he could cope in a mainstream school being supported by their communication department.

Go for it. Whereas with the old statement my son could only get specialist ASD support in a school with a specialist department now he has an EHC he is getting ASD specialist support 1:1 in a general FE college. So there is no reason why you'd have to move schools if you didn't want to.

Good luck

Thanks keepbadering! Good to hear. I have heard that in Kent it is very difficult to get and many people have had to fight for years to get their statements but I haven't heard much since the system changed.

Glad your son is getting the support he needs now and is going so well. We only ever want to best for them!

Try contacting the SOS SEN or Ipsea helplines about how to get an EHCP.