Refused ed. psych and statement.

[Madcatgirl]

I asked the head teacher again for d's who has adhd, ASD, hypermobility and dyspraxia for obtaining a statement. The new educational health care plan (?) and access to ed. psych for ds1. Again she has refused, but says she will do the paperwork in y5 ready for high school.

I'm going to look into getting him a private assessment and we are on the waiting list for OP and PT, hopefully it'll be ds turn next month. Apparently there is only one cÅ?inic per month in this area.

The reasons she refuses are ds is "too clever". Ds was at a party over the weekend and chatting away to one of the parents, who is a teacher over the border in the next county and she immediately spotted he was asd and wanted to know was he on the G&T programme and was horrified to discover we are receiving next to no support for him at school.

I need to get my arse in better gear, time is ticking on.

You're telling me, it was when I emailed my requests to the head. I assume it's because I have put in writing and involved the council by directly requesting a statement. It's harder to pretend an email didn't happen? Bizzare?

We're going to SEN panel in January, but I called to check Ds' position on the OT and PT waiting lists. We're told initially it'd be around now, now I'm being told may or june!

You need to check your local authorities policy on statementing / local offer. Off the top of my head there are specific timeframes that they need to adhere to.

Will not having ot and pt assessment affect statementing? It's so annoying.