Indi SALT report help please - is a recommendation of 'up to 60 minutes therapy weekly' specific enough?

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Or should I be asking the indi SALT to phrase it as a minimum amount? (In worry mode I am concerned that 5 minutes therapy is 'up to 60 mins'!)

Background is that the report is for 9 year old DD who has HFA and selective mutism and wouldn't do any standardised assessments and even the questionnnaire we completed as parents and the one from the school didn't pass some 'consistency' test so the results aren't valid. So one of the main recommendations from the indi SALT is DD needs further assessment having built rapport over time with a SALT and the weekly 'up to 60 mins' sessions are to enable her to do this.

Thanks.

In worry mode, you are correct.

Maybe make sure they specify with a suitably qualified speech therapist too if that is what you need. Over wise they will just day the LSA can do it

you are correct to be worried.
dd's indie slt report states -
'dd needs not less than 45 minutes a week of direct speech and language therapy on a 1:1 basis, with a fully qualified and experienced pediatric speech and language therapist.'
the report then goes on to state the qualifications and experience that the slt will need.
honestly you cant leave any wriggle room as otherwise the provision will not be legally enforceable. the LEA will know this and manipulate the unspecific recomendation to their advantage - in my experience my LA would claim 1 second with a slt would be adequate provision for 'up to 60 minutes'!

My LA even tried to claim that a TA could carry out the therapy, despite the indie report stating dd needed a fully qualified and experienced speech and language therapist.

Thanks for that. Hadn't thought about the need to state an 'appropriately qualified' SALT. It is all such a minefield.

I'm an SLT.

There's no way a TA can be a substitute for a qualified SLT. Some will argue against this, however it's an absolute bottom line. If my child needed SLT, I wouldn't be accept anything less.

Would you accept an untrained surgeon operating on you?