Now I'll openly admit that my ds ms school is in reality fairly good - they pushed very hard to have ds statemented and gave him 121 support until they got it. Ds got 19hrs support but the school provide the extra hrs ds needs. I haven't been through any of coff or claws issues - they are extremely keen for ds to take part in all trips including the residential trip in July. They have asked that I take ds to visit the place with his lsa (in school time) before he goes - which is reasonable. They also provide group speech therapy and the HT is very hot on not letting him being removed from class without good reason and not for entire sessions - ds gets upset if he's sent out and past teachers have attempted to send ds out with LSA even before there's a problem, and I'm lucky to have a strong opinionated LSA that will argue for ds and now a HT, that appears to be managing her staff. I will say reception was a nightmare the old HT did not support ds in any way when we applied for statement and blanket banned him from PE, music and assembly - ds kind of fell into a depression. The only run-in I had with the new HT was when she said that ds couldn't attend a drama club without me there ( long story and not relevant)
Anyhow I mentioned to the senco I was looking at ABA - she called me today to book a meeting about the jnr transition and then proceeded to tell me that she spoken to the EP about my research and low and behold the EP was an ABA therapist and would I like to come in and have a chat to get a better understanding - I nearly fell over! I'm still in shock .... Whilst the school aren't bad I'm usually the driving force ..... Totally thrown me off guard - the bastards! 