Chartered Educational Psychologists

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Does anyone know if Chartered Educational Psychologist have Psychology degree qualifications?

yes they do, i did psychology at uni and could have gone down that route i believe, however ed psych's also need to do a teaching qualification too!

Thank you very interesting as my daughters Head Teacher is refusing to support my daughter at school and accept her needs and he says he has had no advice from medically qualified proffesionals.
He has in fact got my daughters diagnosis and suggested treatment plans from both a clinical psychologist, speech and language therapist and a report from the educational psychologist who happens to be chartered.
Not sure where to go with this yet but am drafting out a formal complaint to the school govs to start with.

to a certain extent a psychologist is not specifically medically trained though, maybe he is meaning like a paediatrician? guess it depends on the issues there are problems with etc

Hmm perhaps but they are qualified and the correct people to diagnose for my daughters particular needs in this instance.

Ed psychs don't need teaching qualifications anymore. There is a direct entry masters now.

Have you thought about applying for a statement of educational need, at all?

Yes I will put a letter into the SEN team on Monday. Don't know if I will get very far without the schools backing but I know I can appeal.

Perhaps you need to start by putting your request for in-school support in writing to the SENCO & Head, requesting a written reply. Then, if nothing happens, you can state this as evidence that your daughter's needs are not being met so your dd needs statutory assessment, iyswim.

Do you have evidence that she is struggling at school?

She has Selective Mutism and dyscalculia. The school are refusing to help with either or acknowledge the full extent of her difficulties. There is another child at the school with SM the Head made the Mum feel like it was her fault and that if she carried on trying to get help for her daughter then she would make the problem worse in spite of the girls SALT advising the Head that she needed intervention. The Mum was so upset by this and actually believed the Head that she needed counselling herself.

She has only progressed 1 sub level in Maths (only at 2c now) since year 2 she is in year 6 now. She is a level 5-6 in English reading age 14 years.

I really think you need to write a letter outlining your DD's known difficulties (inc. maths) and asking the head what intervention is being taken. Then use the response as part of your submission for requesting statutory assessment.

Already asked about 6 months ago. He is not doing anything. She is left in her lesson unable to ask for help and unable to answer any questions. A TA took her into a room alone with her a few weeks ago for a test. My daughter had her wrong answers rubbed out and was told the right answers to put in. Then the school proceeded to tell us that she had no problems and was above average which we know is not true as her previous school were testing her for dyscalculia as well before we moved her.

Put the statutory assessment in today for my daughter and sent an appeal of for my son to SEND because of the LA's refusal to statutory assess him. I am all paperworked out now and need to chill but all the house work that has built up around me needs doing instaed!! [niscuit]

Well done!

Thanks-I have got full on school refusal to deal with now, so it goes on....