claiming back cost of dylesxia assessment and tutoring...has anyone successfully done this?

[sarahdottie]

can anyone point me in the right direction to claim back costs of dyslexia assessment and consequent tutoring required after diagnosis? do we go through school via a statement of special educational needs (that'll be fun...) or is there another route?

Never heard of this, not sure why you are asking? I presume you've paid for assesment and tutoring and you think school/LEA should be paying for it because he needs/ed it? If that is that case you don't stand a chance I am sorry to say. I say this as a parent of dyslexic DS1 who has just left Y6.

They hardly ever statement a dyslexic child, unless very, very severe. Even if you get a statement they won't give out any costs from previous work.

We paid for 2 years of tution at dyslexia action and in Y6 he got IPF which has now been scrapped for a dyslexia specialist tutor to com ein and see him for 3 hrs a week in Y6. His school have been brilliant, splendid SENCO, lots of other interventions done too.

The whole SEN system for primary schools change in April this year and because my DS had his set in place and has now left I have not kept up with the changes in SEN provision.

Local Parent Partnership (every LEA has one, indepedent body)or school SENCO should be able to advise.

I believe that current policy suggests that wherever a child sits on the spectrum of literacy ability, their needs are all best met/taught in the same way as any other child. This means that no extra funding is required so no statement would be given.

DS1 does not have severe dyslexia but he has a statement. The proposed statement was a bog-standard dyslexia statement with 15 hours in m/s. He has additional needs but he is now funded by the LA to attend out of county independent specialist school (Frewen). 70% of DC at school are funded through statement.

Costs a lot to achieve and you cannot retrospectively claim costs.

My son has a statement for VERY severe dyslexia (plus dyscalculia and dyspraxia) He had to prove to be at least three years behind his peers before they would agree to assess for statement. In the meantime we paid for private ed psyc and private speech and language etc as we weren't getting the help we felt he needed. It was still a big fight to get the statement and we can't claim back anything we have paid but he is about to be placed a an independent specialist dyslexic school paid for by the local authority. I think the point is, to get any help outside the norm, your child has to be off the scale dyslexic and will have had to prove to fail in MS before they'll even consider any help and you definitely won't get any thing back that you have paid for - sorry x

Complexity, anxiety, failure to progress etc are more significant than severity of one condition per se. DS1 has ASD, SPD, APD as well as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, anxiety, Tourette's etc.

Also evidence of failure - DS1 had been out of school and receiving EOTAS for two terms.

Btw the child does not have to be x years behind - my LA claims that the child has to be at least 5 years behind at primary (1b in year 6) but if you look at secondary the child 'has' to remain at this level for several more years.

Agree, they don't usually statement just for one issue and I guess different local authorities have different criteria.

We have a son in year 6
Has a statement for his dyslexia
Looking at frewan colledge
Do you think we would get the funding ? Or have we got ideas set too high?
We would be looking to do weekly boarding
All very scary !