My DS is 6 and has some very obviously special needs, the school senco and his class teacher both think dyspraxia but both acknowledge they're not in a position to make a diagnosis.
The school nurse wrote a huge long referral to CDC with a whole wad of evidence, they wrote back stating that it had all the matching traits of ADHD and they don't have the funding to deal with those cases and that was that.
The school nurse then left and there is no one to fill her role so our school currently don't have one.
The GP can only write again with the same evidence to the same people.
I'm not sure how to progress, the school and our family like worker are looking into it and have asked for an OT referral whilst we make a plan but I wonder is there's something else I should be doing?
His teacher is lovely and she admits that whilst she's keeping him afloat academically she doesn't think she can continue to do so for much longer with the level of one on one input he needs in class.
He is very hard work, his behaviour isn't bad or defiant but he needs close supervision and input with every little thing he does because he cannot follow through on simple tasks without getting distracted, for instance when left to get himself dressed after PE he came out of class with one shoe on (the other he'd tied to a table) no socks, 2 different gloves, no coat, no jumper and his trousers were fine, his T-shirt was covered in food beyond what I think is Norma for a child his age and drool where he chews the neck.
We need some support but we've got a bit of a wall.