pre-school application - does this count as SN assessment??

[ballroomblitz]

My son has recently been diagnosed with kinefelter disorder after a long process of assessment due to his development. Atm he has seen an education psychologist and child development clinic. They put a lot of aspects of his development under the 1st-4th centile of where he should be (though he is coming on leaps and bounds lately).
The ed psychologist is coming out during the summer to review his readiness for pre-school. On the application for places it asks if the child is undergoing any special needs assessment (tick box). Would this count or not??

You mean on the application for pre-school places? If so I would say that yes, you would need to tick the box.

I'd tick no if you are not sure. The worst that can happen is that they refer you to someone he is already seeing!

If you tick "yes" they may assume he has all the help he needs.

Oh dear, at exactly the same moment we offer differing advice!! Helpful aren't we!

I'd tick yes on the basis that by the sounds of it he'll need SEN provision and if you tick no they'll be expecting a child that doesn't

if that makes sense?

yeah I'm confused too. We are waiting to see the geneticist to ask him all these questions but obviously takes time.

Yeah I might choose ticking it cos I don't how his development will progress over the next 9 months. He may need SEN but maybe not but better to be safe than sorry and better to have a pre-school that is prepared for it.

Yes tabulahrasa I understand what you mean, by looking at my ds atm he is no-where near what others his age are doing (good thing he has october birthday and starts near older at primary school).

What exactly do you mean by SEN provision? I know I've been told I can have a social worker to provide some-one if he can't potty train by pre-school and he already has PT and SALT. It's all a bit of a whirl to me