stuck between a rock and a hard place! Help please

[Jerbil]

to summarise DS1 dx with ASD last week, SPD (working dx) and visual stress already dx.

psychiatrist: get all your reports and send them to the LEA

However, since school have not carried out the things they are meant to have done. such as recommendation for social skills group over a year ago. and they are reluctant to get ed psych in (£££). He is yr 1, just got his second IEP to recognise high frequency words such as if, she, are. So I think he is fairly behind and working below standard in numeracy too.

I think the psych wants him to be assessed by OT in school sooner rather than later and cos he is probably not going to be seen until at least Christmas she sees this as a way of doing it. SENCO has said they will approach OT with a view to them coming in (not the first time it's been promised).

WWYD?

Look on the IPSEA website for the model statement application letters. Send copies (NOT the originals!!!!!!) of your reports together with the letter to the Director of Children's services for your LA. Get it done today to ensure receipt before 1/2 term. You can list the items that DS should have had such as social skills that have not happened as part of your application & suggest that perhaps the school needs external training in order to provide these items.

The statement process includes statutory timetable by which the EP MUST come in and assess your child so will be the quickest way of doing as the shrink said. If the medical advice is saying the EP needs to come in then you owe it to your child to ensure this happens ASAP.

YOU need to do this as the school have clearly demonstrated they aren't going to help your child without the appropriate push from the authorities. Do not leave it until the situation deterioates into a full-blown crisis.

If you apply then you have full rights of appeal, you know what's being done & when. Do not let the school fob you off any longer.

To quote meerkat "you are your child's only advocate".

If the medical advice is saying the EP needs to come in then you owe it to your child to ensure this happens ASAP. Thanks Bochead That sort of sums it up and gives me the drive. I'm not a confrontational person at all and feel guilty whenever I need to do something like this.

i already had to go for a 2nd opinion to get the dx, thankfully though with the 1st psych's blessing otherwise it would have been v difficult.

Parent partnership have told me that I shouldn't do it because the lea will ask school what they've done and because they haven't done everything they won't even assess. she's pretty knowledgeable and usually fair.

they have already had the external training on the Social comms, Parent partnership are going mad about this one.

Find out who your local EP is and ring them and express your concerns yourself :)

Tell them precisely that the school are reluctant to call him/her in but your psych recommend this intervention and that due to his dx he needs to be seen asap for educational support so can they please assess him. See what they say.

Put in writing to the HT asking them to formally confirm that the school is choosing to ignore medical advice re the EP.

Seeing it in black and white might just bring home to them the implications of what they are doing in fobbing you off.

Keep a copy of this letter in your back pocket as evidence just in case you ever need it.

Then take Coff's advice.

Boc/Coff Sounds like a plan. Thanks :-)