If your DC has an IEP and/or School Action Plus, do you get regular feedback from SENCO?

[Jodee]

Briefly,

Not spoken with SENCO since I collared her in playground in Jan saying I wanted DS tested for dyslexia.

April IEP (school action plus) discussed with class teacher only - should SENCO be talking with me about this as well?

Will I get another IEP before DS finishes this school year or will it be in start of next school year? IEP a bit vague, in my opinion.

My cousin (a headteacher) stunned that SENCO doesn't meet with me at least every 6/8 weeks or so - he says I should be told his level of progress since Y2. SATS last year.

Sorry for waffle and hurried post, am at work!

At our school there is usually a new IEP each term. The SENCO sets the targets after discussing them with the teacher.

Usually it's the teacher who discusses progress with the parents but we can also make an appointment to speak to the SENCO if we want.

I think a meeting every 6-8wks sounds like a lot. We had them that often at pre-school level but that was because they were usually short-term targets that could be achieved fairly quickly and the children would then be able to move on to something else. The targets at primary school level have a longer time-scale IME.

I think that if our school SENCO met each parent every 6-8wks, they wouldn't have much time left to do anything else. There are quite a few children with SN at our school.

The targets shouldn't be vague. If they are then the SENCO isn't setting them correctly.

(I have 2 boys who are on an IEP at SA+ level)

This site is on an autism site but the principles it sets out for IEPs are relevant to all types of SN.

Usually parents meet with class teacher and go through IEP's at parents evening .About once a term is about right.

we have a separate meeting once a term.

Thank you, and thanks for that link, coppertop. I did myself think that 6/8 weeks was unrealistic, but would have expected termly. We have an informal parents eve coming up this week, no appointment system this time. I think I will try and schedule a formal meeting with teacher/SENCO, as I am unclear as to how DS's issues are being managed, i.e. how many hours a week he gets extra help with phonics/reading. He has just been diagnised by paed. with dyslexia, so I want to see how this will be addressed (when full report from paed. comes in).

I had NO idea that my ds was on School Action and then School Action Plus. No one told me. The SENCO and I only met once at the Tranisition meeting prior to him going to seconday school. During his first year there she did not contact me or have contact with my ds once. Only now that I am going down the Statement route has she had some contact with me and ds. His senior tutor is the guy who wrote all the evidence for his Statement, not her as, in her words, she did not know ds. There is talk of an IEP for my ds but I have never seen it. They sent one in with their evidence to the LEA. Funny that, I thought parents were meant to sign off IEPs.

Candlewax, no-one has ever explained to me what School Action Plus meant either, i had to look it up!

Received an IEP for ds last Christmas - until then didnlt know he had one or was on School Action, although he is getting one to one, let alone had had formal input into it ! Anyway we have been seeing the SENCO termly and apparently the IEP is reviewed twice a year.