Special Needs teacher comments

[DebbieSolloway]

So we have a special needs teacher who always talks about executive functioning, short term memory, processing speeds, inability to focus. Rarely do we cover any other point.

Son has retained reflexes, can't write (and has MAJOR holes in knowledge.

Example cant count beyond 100 so rounding off to nearest 1000 was a mystery to him! Teacher IMNSHO should talk to me about him not being able to count - instead talks to me about being able to do sums rounding off to 1,000 proof about his low processing speed.

My question is a special needs teacher qualified to conclude that a child has a poor executive function which is why he is lagging behind in class?

Typo in earlier post so reposting -

So we have a special needs teacher who always talks about executive functioning, short term memory, processing speeds, inability to focus. Rarely do we cover any other point.

Son has retained reflexes, can't write (and has MAJOR holes in knowledge.

Example cant count beyond 100 so rounding off to nearest 1000 was a mystery to him!

Teacher IMNSHO should talk to me about him not being able to count - instead talks to me about how NOT being able to do sums rounding off to 1,000 proof about his low processing speed.

My question is a special needs teacher qualified to conclude that a child has a poor executive function which is why he is lagging behind in class?

I would think it most unlikely that any teacher (sen or not) is 'qualified' to form such a conclusion, but they would of course be entitled to their opinion. If however, they are telling you their 'opinion' as if it were 'fact' then I think this would be wrong. I'm not sure exactly what you want to know here. Has the teacher said I think your child has/is ................. If so what have they proposed to do about it?

feynman: Its a comment in the report card concluding why he is below grade level. Thing is they are doing nothing about it other than to say he may never be able to do his GCSE.

It really depends on the whole profile and the discrepancies between the scores, did he/she do a full cognitive assessment?

J

www.thefamilypsychologist.co.uk

Come over to the SN Children board. There's more traffic there.

SENCO talking out of her arse if she us just regurgitating something she wrote learned and can't talk about individual needs of child. Further, any 'problems' should be followed with solutions not a shrug.