What will the Educational Psychologist do?

[anniebear]

We are thinking of having Ellie assessed by an Ed Psyc

she was last assessed at just turned 2 when she was having her statement done

she is now turned 5 and half and has changed so much, she is doing 3 dyas at SN School and 2 at mainstream with a 1-1

we are not sure if you increase the mainstream, which school is the best for her etc etc

what kind of things will an Ed Pysc do?

Thanks

They just come and watch your child, and chat to them if appropriate, then they make an assessment of their educational needs and hints about how the staff can help.

That's what she did for ds1

thanks

if in school will she just sit and watch?

then if we take her to the Child Development centre she will actually do things with her?

we can have her assessed at either school or at CDC or a couple

We had it done at preschool. She mostly did sit and watch, and played some games with him, and counted stuff.

Ds2 saw the Ed Psych at pre-school. She didn't do a lot of observation because she had a lot of recent reports from other people. She did some tests with ds2 and then we sat and talked about the kinds of provision we would like for him, eg level of support, issues teachers needed to be aware of, any extra equipment etc.

On a recent visit to see my dd(6.2 years old in year 2) in school the ed psych chatted to school staff and myself and carried out some standard testing(wechsler intelligence scale for children(iv) uk) so as to have a basic scoreline to compare with future testing as like your dd, my dd was last seen when she was 2 and at the start of the statementing process(and the test carried out there is totally different apparently!)
we then received a report 5 pages long but ed psych sat like a mute during the annual review and only argued one point which we feel she is in the wrong over.....

i would suggest that the ed psych observe your dd whilst at her mainstream school and do any chatting /testing at the cdc

good luck x