My head hurts

[Jimjams]

I HATE loathe and detest review meetings. Just had over an hour with teacher, LSA, head, autism outreach X 2, statementing officer, oh and dh (thank goodness). I never get used to them, and always feel like crying (although everyone was very nice- even the statementing officer).

Jimjams - hope you have had a glass or three of wine to recover by now. Know what you mean, I hate these meetings too, and get all worried about the thought of bursting into tears and looking like a pitiable idiot. And when they're all so NICE it's even harder!

Jimjams if its any consolation I have cried a few times at them, maybe thats why they still think I am in denial Hope you are feeling better today

Hmmm it's the things left unsaid that worry me- my brain works overtime. I think we'll get another year out of mainstream at least. The head wants him to re-do reception which is fine by me (I had kind of assumed he would anyway). Apparently and Ed-Psych has to agree to this, but I got the impression from the head that whatever the Ed Psych said he would be re-doing reception (She's very nice but quite scary!- although ds1 isn't scared of her at all!)

I'm thinking that if we can get another year out of it then hopefully we'll be able to avoid the auitsm unit as that only covers ks1. SO if they can't handle him after another year then we would be able to have a look at the supposedly very good special school that concentrates on communication dosroders (still not sure what staff ratio is though). We may well be home edding yet.

Everyone keeps saying to me that in a years time he might be completely different and speaking blah blha blah. Yeah right, spent 3 years waiting for that to happen- I think not.

Anyway I think we are settled for another year. Hope so as I think he;s getting on well there and I'm really pleased with the school. I do recognise that he's hard work for them though.

jimjams try not think about the future too much (lol thats what you always tell me) I know what you mean about the special school, I didnt want dd to go but after looking round it I loved the place. DD is really happy there and doing SO well.Her speech is coming now and I can tell you it is a shock. Your son may well suprise you, my dd does all the time. Obv I can only understand some of her speech

surprise me- I think I'd be on the floor

Maybe that's why I hate these things- they make me look to the future. Yuck!

Those meetings are horrible aren't they? The thing to keep in mind, which you obvsiouly have, is that as long as the outcome is what you want then that's all that matters. I actually hold back on making things sound too good as I don't want them to say, "OK, he can manage somewhere else" but I also don't want to play his progrss down or they'll think the school is not doing well enough. Its quite a tricky balancing act. As long as he gets the next year that's all that matters (oh and the support of course!)