Parental Response SA Question

[Bluesunbeam]

One of the questions is what does your child do well?

In relation to what?

It took us 18 months to teach ds to go up stairs and get a pair of socks. Now we think that is fantastic - as it means I don't have to hobble up stairs - but I'm pretty sure that isn't what they want!

He has an amazing memory if I move any of his trains/lip salve/dinosaurs but can't transfer this skill to anything else.

He has a beautiful smile!

Another question is what help I would like him to receive?

I don't know what he can have but I do know he needs a high level of 1:1 to learn anything and that everything has to be broken down into tiny, tiny steps and practised over and over again.

I would like the speech therapist to show the TA how to deliver therapy with a higher level of success as we have made no progress in the last year or so.

Thanks for reading and hoping someone can help out as I am brain dead and need to get this done.

I think that this is a section you have to be really, really clever with. You need to manage to sound positive in tone, but the information needs to be either negative or inconsequential. If you say genuinely positive things, they can use it to lower the support he gets.

So you could say "DS1 has a particular interest in trains and dinosaurs, and remembers exactly where he has left them. Although he is unable to use his memory for generalised learning, his ability to remember the positions of his dinosaurs and his reluctance to have them moved requires care."

Or some such thing. So you answer their question without giving them anything to use as a support lowering evidence.

But maybe I'm cynical.

I think cynical can be good!

Thanks for that I managed to get on a roll and get some words down. Sometimes it helps from another perspective.

So hard to write negative things about ds, such a lovely little chap but so complex.