Whats the point! I Hate Statutory Assessment

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I feel like giving up! It has been really hard to get any any professional to assess my son and when they do I am always disappointed by both assessment and report.

I received Ed Pych report yesterday. It took nearly two years to get him assessed and the only reason it even happened was because I applied for statutory assessment. It certainly isn't going to help him get a statement :-(. I find out outcome of statutory assessment next week and know for sure it wont be good newn. He was assessed with BAS and mostly scored average and some low. Towards the end she wrote a what his strengths and weaknesses. She said his attention skills were a big problem but in her list of recommendations she didn't list anything to support this. I assume she is avoiding recommending one to one.

Salt report for statutory assessment isn't going to help either as he scored high??? 6 months ago when tested using CELF he scored 1% percentiles and now scoring above 50%

Thanks for reading. I needed to have a whine. No one in real life is interested. They just think I need to relax and accept he it just slow :-(

The Ep will have a form that she has to fill when doing a report it will be a set form from the county/principle EP that has to be filled in in such a way by every EP in the county. Ep's are regulated by the HPC and won't want to be struck of so they do have to give their professional opinion as they see it. However there probably is not a section for provision on this form - so your sen case officer if they agree to statement will pick the provision out of the EP report they think is needed. If you think there is something the EP has missed out, contact them and tell them and ask them to include it. If they won't - keep a record of what they said and their reasons for not including it in case you need to use it in mediation or a tribunal.

Also ask if they will do a Wisc assessment as these are mor accurate at picking up possible learning difficulties.

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Thank you. I had expected them to do that assessment. Is there any other reasons to use the wisc? Its was hard enough to get them to do whet they have so I will need to have good reason.

Two CELF done within 6 months will show a 'practice effect'. You need (ideally) the first SLT to reassess him with a different tool and see if the improvement is genuine or not. Failing that, insist the school SLT comes back with another test. If your DS has any echolalic tendencies he'll have memorised the answers 6 months ago and just parrotted them straight back at her.

Thank I will look into that. I know even if Ds gets a statement I will have to fight for salt. I worried that they will not even look at celf results from 6months ago as they were done by private salt. Ep only quoted nhs salt in her report about his good progress. He has only made progress recently because of all the salt we have been paying for, for the last 6months. The only part of the BAS assessment he scored low on was word definition and verbal similarities which I guess word suggest him having language difficulties?

BAS is cheaper and shorter and the EP might have felt more at ease using that one?