New to this and first time posting, though have lurked.
Ds is 6, yr 1 and school called a meeting with me, senco, teacher and specialist TA to discuss strategies to help ds in yr 2. He is struggling with reading, writing and was bit behind in maths. Has speech and Lang difficulties too, mainly speech pronounciation and word finding difficulties . Has been seen by nhs salt since age 2 but no one to one intervention (thresholds very high where I live).
Recently employed private salt, who says ds probably dyslexic as he has significantly reduced phonological awareness, but responds well to visual strategies.
Meeting today had me in tears (after) as i got the impression that they didn't think I did enough with ds at home (maybe paranoid) as first question was what is he like at home/ what does he like to do (no table top stuff, all active stuff - not a lot of sit down things) - that they thought the reason that he was behind lack of stimulation. I suggested it was related to his phonological processing and they said too young to look at dyslexia screening. I felt they were saying that he doesn't meet age related expectations but you should just put up with it and not be over anxious (looking for diagnosis). My point was if we didn't look at alternatives now he would be floundering by year 2/3 and self esteem would suffer.
I feel patronised, labelled as over anxious pushy mum. And blamed.
Is this the usual experience?