EP report during assessment??

[fightingthela]

Going through SA at the moment and EP saw ds recently. Have received the report already and asked to let EP know if not meeting withn our approval. Is this common? Seems a bit helpful to me or am I just too suspicious?

Didnt get to see the EP report until i received the LA's decision, they are then not allowed to circulate it to school or other professionals until i have agreed it.

Dont blame you for being suspicious though. Have you already spoken to EP prior to the assessment?

Yes,saw EP during assessment and felt she was the only professional we've seen so far who really seemed to understand his difficulties. Report seems an accurate account of his difficulties.

Yeah maybe you're right Star. Just so used to bashing ahead against wall it's a shock when a professional is helpful!

Fighting, really seen as they are writing about your child, you have every right to see it before anyone else. Every other agency i know, has to share the info with parents before anyone else.

There was not much to disagree with really in ds's report, in our EP report, history, testing, observation, recommendations.

Did she/he make any recommendations? Perhaps you could ask for them to be more specific?

How specific should the recommendations be? Under provision it states that he will need to be provided with blah ,blah,blah (don't want to go into too much detail here) but is more than he's getting now.

Before children I was an EP. When I saw children for SA (in fact for any assessment where I saw the child) I would always discuss with parents exactly what I was planning to write in my report as I didn't want them to have any surprises when they got it. I would also always ask them to let me know if they disagreed with anything I had put in a report once it arrived through their letterbox. I hope I was respectful of their superior knowledge of their child.

As specific as you can get them!

For example ds's states ds (in brief) will need one to one to help implement appropriate programmes.

1. What programmes are appropriate?
2. Who should deliver the programme?
3. How often?
4. How long, 5 minutes, 5 hours?

That kind of thing. I doubt she/he would include it, but might be worth a try?

the EP who assessed DS1 did and said the same - she said any facts that were wrong she would amend, but if we disagreed with her opinion on something she would listen but may not change her report and findings.

DS1's EP report was actually quite weak and garbled(!) but DS1 got a statement nontheless.

neolara, thanks - you sound like a good ep too!
Claw lots of programmes are mentioned e.g programme of support,behaviour programme etc.but no mention of who will do these.

Polareyes - think you are in same county as me so maybe the same EP?

As Polar says they usually mean for you to agree with the facts, not opinion. But you are not disagreeing with her opinion, just asking her to be a bit more specific about it!

and she did ask you for your opinion!

ooh possibly or maybe our wondrous county actually has a good set policy on one thing
ours was K something