Have you managed to get a statement for physical disability, without any learning disability

[Katymac]

Silverfrog has been helping me here

& suggested this thread

How easy/hard is it going to be?

I teach a boy who is deaf and has 25 hours of support.

Yes. Because otherwise she would not be able to access the curriculum (wheelchair and physically v weak). it has not been difficult to be honest as it is so obvious to see - suspect much harder if the disability is less visible.

That's what I thought

DD has been awarded 25 hrs through the "single area panel" but actually I don't know what that means or how enforceable it is

Apparently "a statement isn't really necessary"

No. Our LEA told me they never statement for physical disability. Have been told by MNers that this is illegal and wrong, but did not feel up for the fight, as dd moved to more helpful school anyway. Attitude of the old school was just to ignore her needs and assume that if she stayed in the wheelchair that was her choice. There were certainly parts of the curriculum she oculdn't access until we threatened with suing the school.

The boy I teach has a TA in every lesson (secondary).

I'm quite befuddled by it all

Rivan, am I right in thinking they wouldn't be able to have your DD in school without support as she needs 1-2-1 care for just 'being' never mind learning? (forgive me if I phrased that badly)

So irrespective of her learning ability she would need support for care

I'm not sure I can run with that one for DD as although she needs a minimal amount of care, she doesn't need anything like your DD (obviously)

I think they are going to wriggle around her 'keeping up' with the others in her year

My dad wants to bring in tutors already but I think she has enough to deal with right now

It must be so hard for you all - she must get so bored and frustrated - is her 1-2-1 able to create opportunities for her to engage?

That's great - it must be a hard job tho' to know what would be important to your DD specifically

I struggle with knowing I know so little about how DD is going to manage

Like on the DLA form I keep wanting to say "I don't know yet - it only just happened", "well maybe but we aren't sure yet" and stuff like that

Yes, My life seems to be made of initials/acronyms atm (

My daughter has a statement for physical disability alone

She has tremors in her arms/hands which means she can't handwrite. She has 15 hours of support in her statement and the school top that up to full time support. He LSA takes notes for her and writes for her, helps her use her laptop and also helps her to and from classes (her hands aren't the only thing affected)

On the DLA form, just write about today and the worst of today too. It is a bleak and depressing form but unfortunately we have to be bleak and depressing to get anything

As I understand it, it is illegal for a LEA to say they don't give statements for x/y/z so don't listen to them if they do.

I have heard some really good things about IPSEA in helping people with getting statements, not used them myself

www.ipsea.org.uk/

Thanks Tribeleader - I spoke to Ipsea today - very useful

yes. dd2 was statemented for physical disability and no lds.

katy, what's the 25 hours thing you have been promised? are they actually providing her with 25 hours support a week at school?

i would also be asking for equipment - how is she managing to take notes etc - is she using a digital voice recorder? is someone scribing/ transcribing for her at the moment?

are they altering the school environment to maximise the residual vision she has? (ie contrast colours/ steps/ corners)

not as far as I am aware
She is having touch typing lessons & when she gets competent she can have a computer (how long does it take to touch type?)
Nothing else - No I forgot she is having some rehab to do with getting around

i still don't really understand the 25 hours thing - in sn terms, generally if a child is granted '25 hours', that is a 'per week' amount ad infinitum, which would explain why they are advertising/ recruiting (these things do unfortunately take time - v frustrating for parents, some sn children are unable to start school with their peers because the system is not responsive enough)... where have you been told that the funding only lasts for 7 weeks? (apols if i'm being dim - am not familiar with the 'single area panel' thingy. is this a stopgap whilst they make more permanent arrangements?

on the other child front - i would be discussing the situation with the mother of the friend that is currently 'responsible' for helping dd, and asking them in the nicest possible terms if they would pop into school to register their concern that your dd isn't being properly supported, which is impacting on the education of their own child.

(hadn't read the other thread lol - can't keep up with you )

hope friday answers some questions for you and dh too - i'm sure it will be about supporting you both through this as well as giving you some furhter ideas how to support dd psychologically, rather than physically.

That's OK - I don't understand it either.

The SAP is an emergency thing until 'everything' is sorted

I did ask the friends mum to do that