Assessments - where do I start?

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Hi all, my daughter is in year 4 but is working at about the level the school would expect of a year 2 child. She has been receiving SEN interventions since year 1. My concern is that the interventions offered by the school may not be very effective for her. The school has said that she has problems with her working memory but they feel that she isn't dyslexic, doesn't have Dyspraxic, ADHD, autism or similar. So....we all press on with the current interventions which dont appear to be as targeted as I'd like. I'd like to have her assessed to see precisely where her processing weaknesses are so we can focus more on those areas. Otherwise she's a bright, chatty girl (at home anyway), really good at problem solving and reading other people.
Thanks for reading. Sorry it was a long one.

If you're prepared to pay yourself a private educational psychologist would be a great place to start. To get them funded you have to apply to the authority and it's usually a battle.

My only caution about a private ed psych is that I've read that some local authorities don't implement their recommendations only those from the public sector so worth checking before paying

My DS's EHCP is a cut and paste of private reports. To not include them would be to discredit a professional, which is pretty dodgey ground.

I work as a private (and NHS) psychologist and I have never had an assessment rejected by an EHCP panel for being private. Not fully sure where your experience has come from, but there may have been something about that specific report that meant it was not considered.