Have had draft statement through for ds3- dunno whether to laugh or cry

[Peachy]

Advice of SALT and Paed is extreme support or SALT unit

LEA only prepared to offer 10 hours

I cannot send a non verbal child in nappies to school on that!

Bloody BAT (advisory techer) says his ocnvcentration anis fine and he is now dry, SALT says concentration 3 minutes and he is in nappies. Ic ant argue with her though, she retired day after she wrote the report- ie we offcially complained about her, I'm probably being nasty (well I wuld say in shock) but i do wonder if this si payback (this is the women who was very aggressive to DH and I in private so not unfounded)

Can't beleive this tripe!

Poor you peachy and poor ds3

Will you challenge what is written?

We are challenging it! we'll keep home if needed (well we had already arranged flexible learning- christmas start, then part time until Easter as he isn't yet 4).

though- same provision our HFA 7 year old gets, and he has no language issues at all

I don't know how they make their decisions tbh. DS get fulltime 1:1 which our LEA funds 25 hours of. I am really please he gets it and it helps him enormously but there are other children who need support just as much as he does if not more and they get nothing.

When is he 4?

It's such a bloody lottery and it's so unfair . DS3 has a "severe phonological disorder with articulatory dyspraxia" and has 20 hours a week 1:1 - but I rang Children's Services once a week for about 5 months, and was lucky to have a great SALT, and even then it didn't come through in time for him to start school last September, so he spent the first few months with no support. It's insane - keep nagging, have no hesitation at all about turning into a pushy cow, and good luck.

he's 4 next week, so bad luck really- delayes, SN and a summer baby.

Our Assembly member took on the case a while abck so have just updated him.

They have used the advice of an unqualified support worrker above that of the SALT which seems really rather wrong

I'm used to the pushy cow- took us yars to get ds1 any help. HAd hopwed as school describe ds3 as 'significantly severe' and so do SALT, that LEA would see he needed more.

there's a unit near us, takes kids with SALT issues and aims to get them back in MS by year 5. Why he wasn't offered that I will never know. Only school we can access is particularly academic (Ds2 loves it but ds1 struggles).

Do you have an assigned SN caseworker at your council's Children's Services? The one we had was invaluable.

Same as my ds peachy - being a july baby made it so much harder for him.

I have requested an assessment but they haven't got back to me yet. When I ahd ds1 (7.5 and HFA) asssessed they said they don't take on kids without serius diagnoses any mroe- and ds3 is perhaps a few yeras away froma dx due to confusion between ASD and language Disorder. DS1 is noted for violent outbursts etc yet theyrefused to give us a SW then at all.