Hi all,
Just after some thoughts really.
Am moving to another borough in the next couple of months and have visited a couple of schools for DS (ASD) and DD (speech disorder).
Really impressed with one school's ethos on inclusion and from the outside seems great.I do genuinely think it would be great for DD as makaton everywhere and learn cued articulation along with general phonics programme and has a speech and language unit which I would like her to attend in the future.
Really want it to work for DS too as tbh,don't know how we would manage them at different schools but after having spoken to the senco I don't feel 100% confident.
DS has a statement for 25 hours and when mentioning a 1-1,senco said research has shown Velcro TA's don't get the best results as the children need to learn to be independent.I replied that my DS needed someone to teach him how to be independent and that by leaving him on his own while his 1-1 covers elsewhere is not going to lead to independence(although a bit more politely-I hope)! She kind of back tracked and said they would assess his needs,etc.She also said the TA would sit at his table (rather than with him).
Senco also mentioned they do provision mapping rather than iep's.i know what they are but just wondered if anyone has any experience of their child's school using this method rather than iep's and what their experience has been.
Now,I don't mind him working within a group if he is accessing the work and is able to do it independently but considering one of his targets atm is to work independently on a piece of work for 2 minutes,I can't see how he would manage without 1-1.
So I guess what I'm asking is has anyone had a bad experience with a school that looks and seems completely inclusive?
Or maybe I'm just having a wobble about having to change schools.
Sorry for waffling!!!!