Moor House Oxted

[Nancy74]

Do any of you know this school? My son has a receptive language disorder and is very behind at school but otherwise very mainstream. If you met him you wouldn't know anything was wrong until you gave him multiple instructions or put him in front of a book!

I've heard great things about Moor House but I wonder if it maybe too specialised?

It’s a specialist speech and language school, so I am not sure how it can be too specialised - unless you mean a child, who only has mild speech/language difficulties and is ok in mainstream?

Moor House used to be the grammar school of the speech and language schools, which took fairly bright children, who if they didn’t have the speech or language difficulties would be in mainstream.

Many of the children I met there, appear on the surface to be “normal”; but it’s obviously a different story in the classroom.

The problem with a receptive disorder as opposed to an expressive disorder is that the ability to form concepts is impaired and that impacts as the language in school becomes more abstract and conceptual, delivered at speed, the higher up the child gets in the mainstream education system.