What should an Ed Psych report include?

[loueytbg]

We've just got a draft EP report for DS1 who has GDD, hypermobility and a communication delay (or disorder). I'm not filled with confidence with the EP who
is a locum and nor is our portage worker. She has recommended a high level of support which I'm pleased about but she told me he needs one-to-one and it's not worded like that in the report. She has done the wechsler test on DS1 and that is in the report. There is very little about his communication skills but I'm not sure if that is normal or whether she would leave all that to SALT?

She has included some stuff about his lack of sense of danger but only as an afterthought when I mentioned it to her. It was almost as if she hadn't even thought about asking about it and was just going to report the results of the tests.

She has asked me for any comments but having never seen one of these reports before I don't know what they should and shouldn't include. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi louey

If she's verbally said he needs 1:1 and not written it up I would definitely challenge it and get her to change it - sounds like she's had a look and found out that 1:1 isn't available so is softening the language?

We just had an EdPsych assessement and report which, on balance, we thought was fair, but we didn't believe she'd given full weighting to what we want as parents. So, rather than challenge her report we wrote a letter in response re-iterating all our points.

She just summarised all the other assessments he'd had and focused heavily on the assessments she'd done - maybe yours is the same and that's why there's not much in the way of SALT info?

HTH