my ds4 has a diagnosis of apraxia and I have applied for an assesment of needs for a statement. ideally I would like him to go to a speech and lang unit and we have one just a few miles away. however, places are rarer than hen's teeth and we know of a few children just in our neighbourhood who are a stage nearer statementing than us.
I know it is really hard getting children a statement, and am counting the days to finding out if they will assess and I am just really hopeing someone has been there and understand the worry. I feel I am boring my family and friends as its all i think about with him.
he has been assesed by the ed psyc. his salt is fantastic and she works in the unit so it would be a bonus if he went there, but i think i am being to optamistic.
do any of you have children who got a statement for a speech unit? he does have global dyspraxia aswell.
he is on the 1st percentile for expressive language,
he is on the 90th percentile for non-verbal reasoning.
the paed at the children centre says he will benefit from a place, but i also get that there are more children than places. what happens then? we have a private school 6 miles away that has a speech unit, but i have no idea of how we would get that funded.
if his statement is turned down, have any of you appealled? I am trying to build myself up for a fight for my son, but to be honest, i am still recovering from losing my parents, both on 10th march but one in 2009 and one in 2010 plus my niece and brother in law in that year so energy resources are low.
how do you all keep going? my lil boy is lovely but i have to interpret everything and he is starting to find it harder to play with his friends as he wants to just be with me to translate, thou i dont actually understand half of it. sorry for the tired winge, its been a hard weekend!