Hi all,
I posted on here a while ago about my frustration with the way that the assessment procedure with my son seems to be going nowhere. He hasn't had an appointment with the speech therapist since October although whenever I phone they say he hasn't been forgotten and despite being confirmed as having a 2 year delay in expressive speech when he saw the paed in August, I've had no appointments since despite being reassured that he's in the system and hasn't been forgotten.
Luckily for our son, we are able to afford to pay for private assessments and next week he sees the speech therapist and finally, finally, finally, after weeks of badgering her secretary on the phone we have a date for him to be assessed by Daphne Keen. Not until July but still I am just so relieved that finally he will be assessed by someone who knows what they are talking about.
My son starts school in September so none of these reports will be through in time for me to get a statement for him in time for reception but with any luck we'll have got one by the time he goes into Year 1.
Anyone on here seen Daphne Keen? What's she like as a person? What's the assessment procedure like? I know it takes 2 hours but apart from that I don't really know what to expect - not that I intend to school him for it of course as clearly that would render the whole thing pointless...