Morning all.
My 10 year old son has been having difficulties at school. He is in mainstream, diagnosed ASD, he has hypermobility in his hands, knees, hips and ankles. He struggles with physical activity- gross and fine motor. He cannot catch/throw a ball.
He has OT exercises 3 x week. This has been for 5 years now.
I raised issues in October around his pain, fatigue and he was telling us he was finding work difficult. He used to use a laptop for long writing tasks in y3 due to the stability in his hand but this stopped for some reason.
His OT assessed him in November. She picked up quite a lot of new issues such as intention tremor when doing fine motor and his writing speed was significantly below age, she picked up that his work in his books was incomplete. He struggled with copying from the board and lost his place constantly. She wrote a report with recommedations; including using a laptop for writing tasks.
In January, I had issues getting him to school due to sensory issues so I spoke to his teacher. They then raised that his learning has dropped massively and he is really struggling. I asked whether the recommendations had been put in place. I was told they never received the report. The OT and I both sent it and I also emailed a copy in November. That same day I took in another copy and they said they already had it.
I had several calls with the senco discussing the recommendations and she assured me they were all in place, My son was still struggling and said they were not in place. Mainly the laptop to support with his work and he was adamant he had not used one.
I called a meeting with the senco early January. She said to me that my son isn't telling the truth. She has seen with her own eyes several times he is using one and has been for a long time, I asked to look through his school books and was refused. We discussed his iEP, I was assured there was one several times. We haven't seen one in 2 years. My son came home the day of our meeting telling us all about the laptop he used for the first time and he completed a writing task.
We requested a SAR. Upon collection we were shown school books. There was no printed work until the day after our meeting. The member of staff then told us there wasn't anything previously because the laptop wouldn't print, they couldn't email from it either. There wasn't much in the SAR apart from an old IEP.
I called a meeting with the headteacher which we had this week. She apologised for the cover up that staff have made regarding the laptop and that it wasn't in place until after my meeting in January.
I'm so upset with all the teacher involved in the lying. I'm cross that they accused my son of lying. I'm not entirely sure how to approach this next. There have so many issues over the years and his seen needs are not supported unless I raise it.