IEP, DX of dyslexia and dyscalculia....1 to 1 help?

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Hi,

Please can anyone advise me, having ongoing problems with SENCO at school. My son has only just, (after many years of fighting) been dx with the above. I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg........anyhow....How many hours if any, should he receive on 1 to 1 , or 1 to 5 as in his case. At the moment he has 1/2 hour for maths and 1/2 for literary , this does not always happen BTW.!!

School, always, but always have an excuse when I check up,{ -- beg to take the work home and teach it myself, which I have done the last 3 weeks.----}

I keep getting told, he should be "entitled" to 15 , to school saying he is sooooooo lucto takeky to get what he does, "they do have other children to spend their budget on" .God so fed up and

Sorry don't want to bother all you lovely people.xx

lucky to get

fraggle500

The problem is the politics of education in the UK, it starts with central government not wanting to reduce taxes, which limits the amount of funding available to provide the support services our children need, the Local Authorities then have limited budget to cover an increasing number of children as research and awareness of the nature of the support needs increases. The Local Authorities run the school, and as such pay the teachers, pay the Ed Psycs, and the pay most of all of the support staff, so much of the resistance you come across is based on employees doing what their employers expect of them. AND none of this will ever match the needs of children like ours. So unless one of the main national political parties has a children first or disability first platform at any future general election then this will always continue.

Dyslexia is a screen process or symptom for various underlying information processing disabilities. There are three cognitive subtypes of dyslexia, auditory, visual and attentional. Which means that an auditory processing disorder (listening disability), a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder or any combination of the three can cause the dyslexic symptom. So the next step may be to approach your GP and if a well informed GP, then may be able to refer to to the specific consultants able to assess and diagnose these disabilties

There is no standard amount of entitlement a child with dyslexia / dyscalculia should get.

Unless he has a Statement he won't be entitled to any fixed amount of support, 1-1 or in a group. sorry.

However 15 hours is an anormous amount and very few children with dyslexia get that.

In Y3 my DD was 2 years behind, and she got 10 minutes a day 1:1. Plus 1 hour a day small group work. Which I was happy with.

School ain't going to do anything magic. It's very easy to do all the standard dyslexia stuff at home.

Thank you for your replies. I guessed that would be the case Indigo, it's just so hard when well meaning people give advise on what your child should or should not be getting, when they don't even have a SN child!! Makes me feel like I am failing him.

Dolfrog, again thank you for your spot on information. I have had a referral from his brilliant consultant, to a Ed psyc via her recommendations , so fingers crossed. I will be printing your post off and take it with me. [happy]

Indigo,

The dyslexia stuff is fine to do at home, both happy with that.

It's the dyscalculia that's the problem. However I have purchased "The dyscalculia Assessment " By Jane Emerson which I am just reading up on now. So far so good. It's more the school, still expecting my DS to understand a "normal" Maths lesson. He gets so nervous when its a Maths day, breaks my heart.

What year is he in? And what level is he working at?

Sorry for delay, tea and bath time!

He is in year 6, working at Maths level 2b,

end of year 4 1a. end of year 5 2b, mid term [dec '11] 2b, expected by end of year 6 3c.

BTW Have been turned down for statement, October 2011. I can re apply end of this month. He has a physical disability as well.

I can't believe he doesn't do maths every day! That is shocking.

In my school all the Y6s who are working at a level 2 would be in their own maths set and wold be given appropriate work. Not sure how many there are - I think 3 or 4 kids working at that level.

My daughter gets an hour a week with a specialist teacher and all her Maths lessons are in a small group with a Maths tecaher and a TA.

Are the SATs results ones that you got in school reports or teacher assessed SATs results?