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SaLT report

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Motherofboys4 · 30/01/2025 12:16

I put up a post last week about my 8 year olds learning difficulties.
Since that she’s seen a SaLT at school (I thought for her stutter- so I didn’t mention in the last post).

She’s scored;
RAPT: Information Age equivalent 3;6 - 3;11 years
Grammar age equivalent 6-6.5 years
In the percentiles (comprehension, expression, and vocabulary test) she scored percentiles 9, 16 and 16.

The recommendations are basically to talk slower to her, split large tasks into smaller ones and give her more time to process a question.
Is there anything I can add to support her, because the age ranges in the report are really troubling me and I don’t think the recommendations are enough.

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BrightYellowTrain · 30/01/2025 12:37

Is DD going to be having ongoing SALT support?

Does DD have an EHCP?

Did the SALT report not include more detailed recommendations? Only providing 3 recommendations is poor. Other simple things that can be done are providing written instructions, individually checking DD has understood the instructions, looking at placement within the classroom, modelling language to support DD’s expressive language needs, narrate what is happening (to improve expressive language), using visuals, providing a word bank. Depending on the school's resources or if DD has an EHCP, they can also look at this like pre-teaching, precision teaching, do they have a nurture group?

Motherofboys4 · 30/01/2025 12:55

BrightYellowTrain · 30/01/2025 12:37

Is DD going to be having ongoing SALT support?

Does DD have an EHCP?

Did the SALT report not include more detailed recommendations? Only providing 3 recommendations is poor. Other simple things that can be done are providing written instructions, individually checking DD has understood the instructions, looking at placement within the classroom, modelling language to support DD’s expressive language needs, narrate what is happening (to improve expressive language), using visuals, providing a word bank. Depending on the school's resources or if DD has an EHCP, they can also look at this like pre-teaching, precision teaching, do they have a nurture group?

It says nothing about ongoing support or what will happen going forward, I only got the report last night so I haven’t had chance to speak to her teacher about it yet.
She has no EHCP, no diagnosis of anything.
There are multiple bullet points of recommendations, but the rest is all things I would expect every child to have like ‘provide a safe environment for asking questions’ ‘don’t finish her sentences for her’ ‘model correct grammar instead of correcting’.
I will take on all of your above suggestions and see if they can implement any of that, thank you!!

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BrightYellowTrain · 30/01/2025 16:37

Request an EHNCA. You can do this yourself now. On their website, IPSEA has a model letter you can use. You don’t need the school to do it and you don’t need a diagnosis to make the request.

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