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Ed.Psych school visit on Wednesday....

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curvychick · 06/09/2010 12:06

The educationsl psychologist is going into school on Wednesday to spend the morning with ds1 aged 8. He has just gone into year 4, really struggled through year 3 and spend most of June and July at home as the stresses of the school day were sending his behaviour off of the scale at home....

we are awaiting a cahms assesment for ASD and i am fairly confident he is an Aspie or has HFA. He is really bright and manages to hold it all together mostly whilst at school.

The ed.psych wants to meet with me following her assesments to gain my parental inpout for her report. She is very very nice and has really fought our corner where school and nhs have been less than helpful tbh The reason that i post is following a multidisciplinary meeting at the end of Sept, we will start the ball rolling for a SA. (I have the letter ready to go from before the hols but decided to wait as didnt want to be turned down without having tried everything than can possibly be done on School Action +) Is there anything that i should be pushing to have included on her report? She has been and done a home visit and she agrees with me he is definately on the spectrum and that he is a very vulnerable little boy. I just want to make sure, that being given the opportunity to have my say, i make sure i say all that i need to! Thanks in advance :)

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 06/09/2010 14:49

curvy

Don't wait till the end of September, put your request in to the LEA for the Statement asap now the EP is going in.

Also Statements can take six months to set up (and that is also if all goes well) so any further delay now will just hold things up even more.

You must appeal their crass decision if the Statement request is turned down. They may turn you down in the first instance anyway.

When is the CAMHS assessment taking place?.

The EP can make recommendations re schooling but cannot make an official diagnosis. I hope her report stresses that he is vulnerable and that statementing is recommended.

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