He was diagnosed with speech and language delay in reception. Struggles with reading, writing and even maths sometimes. He is in year 2 and scored 1 for all English, 2c for maths and 1 for science.
His reading is painful he will have good and bad days.His handwriting is big poor and he still writes things back to front sometimes. He is extremely forgetful and disorganised. When in reception he could not rhyme, sequence etc. He has not sense of time, Struggles with his tie, shoe laces etc.
He had SALT for 6mths after diagnoses then she signed him off. i was told his speech delay was affecting his prenounciation hence he could not say the phonic sounds and hear them. I feel his speech has come on lots his language is sometimes wrong but the clarity is clear. He sometime misses of initial letters saying 'cause' instead of because but that's just lazy speech??? I thought that the speech therapist would do a review at some point but this has not been the case. She just left me with some exercises to do this was well over a year ago.
When reading he will say letters that's are not there sometimes. He has to break everything down to read. Sometimes he guesses. He is on an IEP. He is receiving extra help with phonics in small groups and reading but no 1 to 1. All his teachers say he puts in so much effort and tries so hard. The classroom assistant is sat near him in the class to support him and others etc this will be the case in year 3. But they will only have an assistant in the am not pm. He will still receive extra support but in year 3 the amount goes down. I am extremely concerned. I have seen improvement but this is very slight and inconsistent.
If he is having lots of support, trying really hard and still well below average then what is it!! His teacher says there is no signs of a learning disability and that I now have to think of him just starting to read. She thinks he now has clicked. I just do not know what to believe who to trust who I can ask??
To me he seems like he has a processing disorder but this has never been said by SALT. In fact she was useless and did not explain very much I had to google it all!!!
What should I be doing and who should I be asking?? he is 8 in October. Is it possible he is just a late reader???