Severly dyslexic Aspie, what do you think about statementing for high school?

[MrsShrekTheThird]

In primary school ds has had dyslexia specialist teacher twice a week, and has been attached to the class TA's small SEN group, with IEPs all the way through school - so there hasn't been the need for statutory funding, despite his dx. When he moves to high school in September he's still likely to get the literacy sessions but obv not the rest of the support, so am wondering whether we need to start looking at support for him - yes there is an educational need, and he was diagnosed dyslexic at 7 (EP) and AS at 10 (CAMHS Psychiatrist). What do the wise folks of mn know?

What are his attainment scores now and his IQ profile

IQ's quite good, EP assessed him at 128 when he was 7. It's been a massive struggle to get to 3a in lit but he's done it, pulled up hugely by his speaking and listening being good to compensate for his reading and spelling being attrocious. He's allowed a reader for sats so is likely to get 4b maths and science, wouldn't be able to access the paper at that level without a reader / ammenuensis though. I have done a maths paper with him (homework) this evening, can't do inverse operations but otherwise ok, imho more 4c scraping 4b if the stronger areas outweigh the dodgier ones iyswim.

MrsShrekTheThird

Developmental Dyslexia has three cognitive subtypes; auditory, visual, and attentional. And you need to take the next step to identify the underlying cause or causes of your DS's dyslexia symptom. The type of support your DS will require will depend on the underlying cognitive cause of his dyslexic symptom.
And dyslexia and AS share some common underlying issues.

Number of concurrent issues. ASD - SALT- language decifits will get more complicated as he gets older and therefore more stressful for him. Sensory profile will be more stressed. Spld - Dyslexia issues will become more pronounced unless he gets very specific help. Why if he has been getting this help to date is it not needed now at secondary school.
Clearly there is a complex set of issues which are gogint to be beyond any mainstream secondary school to manage without additional support.

Get a SSEN.

Huge thanks to you both, what a mine of info you guys are.

I still can't figure out what support he might get without going statutory, if I knew the answer to that one I'd be fine!

Silly question MSTT but have you spoken to the SENCO at the new school, if you are sure of where he is going you could make an appointment and ask the question.

Was talking about doing this in the future with Dd3's current SENCO the other day, she seemed to think it would be a good idea even before we apply for the place.

Sorry if you have already done that.

had been there and done that, but now there's a new SENCO Having said that, they were awesomely evasive about any detail. And obviously, it's detail I want because I'm a pedant like that