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TAC meeting next week - please help

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beautifulgirls · 15/09/2010 13:35

DD#1 has speech and motor skills issues and we have some concerns about her social skills too. She has just turned 6 and started in year 1 (oldest in year). We have a TAC meeting on Tuesday morning next week and I wondered if anyone had some good advice as to what we should expect from it, what not to put up with etc. As far as I know there will be an EdPsych, SENCO, old class teacher and new class teacher, SALT (someone who doesn't know her mind you!), and maybe OT? She is on the books of the local NHS SALT but has had none for over a year, is under review with the OT (who is very good) and our previous paed basically signed her off over a year ago as she seemed fine, but referred to the OT "to keep me quiet" where she subsequently scored very poorly on assessment for motor skills - I want a new paed involved at some point but no idea if/how to do this.

Is it unreasonable to expect them to find a way to get her some speech therapy with a real live therapist given the local NHS has pretty much given up seeing anyone and are having a "restructure" for over 12 months now. Will they be able to sort another paed to see her or perhaps the EP can make a diagnosis or rule out? I am suspicious she may have aspergers, though she ticks a lot of boxes for dyspraxia.

We only filled the CAF form in to jump through hoops really - I am considering looking for a statement for her if we don't get anything sorted for the speech therapy as right now no-one wants to take any responsibility for providing any for her. The rest of it needs working through as we don't know what exactly we are dealing with yet.

What happens after the TAC meeting?

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beautifulgirls · 15/09/2010 21:48

Anyone?

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justaboutawinegumoholic · 15/09/2010 21:51

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beautifulgirls · 15/09/2010 22:24

Thanks justabout - she is having speech therapy privately yes. Part of the problem is not knowing exactly what else we are dealing with for her - will see what the TAC meeting brings re maybe proper assessment for getting or excluding a firm diagnosis and take it from there - only a few more days to wait after all! I am expecting to need to go to tribunal over a statement to be honest so I want to make sure I have put everything in place to give me the strongest case for her when we do this, though I realise you can continue to get further assessments etc.

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