Hi - met with LEA this week to talk about DD proposed statement (2.9 with DS)
When talking about potential schools, we told them we hadn't decided yet - at the moment we're favouring mainstream, but also considering mainstream with specialist units attached.
The statement officer suggested that they include a 'hybrid' element, I.e. include 2 paragraphs; the 1st talking about what provisions would be needed in a mainstream school (1-1 care, small class sizes, experienced in makaton), whereas the 2nd paragraph would talk about a specialist school.
This sounds like a good idea, and the LEA have assured us that it won't limit access to either type of school - but wondered if anyone had any experience of this? And are there any negatives to this that we need to think of?
TIA