DX and SA application

[debs40]

Posted earlier to confirm DS was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome today together with Sensory Processing Disorder. The report from the Consultant Psychiatrist who headed the ASD multi-disciplinary panel says he is underperforming educationally (IQ against average grades) and that he needs daily adult help and she recommends a Statutory Assesssment is undertaken.

Do these views carry any weight? Parent Partnership say no.

Go for it debs x

Parent Partnership are trying to lower your expectations. The LA might take no notices, but a tribunal most certainly will and as soon as you put in your appeal, with that kind of backing, they'll do it.

Your Psychiatrist is a rare breed indeed sticking her neck out for an 'educational' matter. She could have been more helpful by giving you and indication of the proportion of his day that he needed adult help and whether she meant 1:1 but never mind. She is probably signalling to you what it is he needs that you should fight for.

What the report has said is that an assessment indicates he has an IQ on 95th centile and yet his teachers are saying his performance is average. They conclude it is therefore likely that coordination, social communication and sensory issues are preventing him reaching his potential and that he is underperforming. Therefore, they suggest a SA be undertaken.

She says that to achieve targets set by a multidisciplinary team of EP, SOCIT and OT and us and school, he will require 'significant levels of daily support by an appropriately trained adult'.

Interesting Debs. My ds is also on 95th centile and classed as 'average' however have been told he could try for 11+!. I have requested SA which goes to panel next week so anxiously awaiting the result. Have you put in for SA yet?

I'm going to do it next week.

PP probably mean that the LA won't budge from their own SA criteria - that is all based on what schools can provide from own budgets etc, not on what professionals recommend (except EPs).

At tribunal it will certainly add to the evidence. I've had a consultant psych report for tribunal and it seems to have equal status to our EP report.

I will be interested to see how you get on, over here they have decreed that no child gets more than 10 hours per week which is just insane. Oh, and if there is more than one SN child in a class, there is still only one assistant. Board policy.

Is your DS's profile spiky? DS1 has non-verbal scores in the 98th centile but is 32nd centile for verbal, which I think is a hell of a gap, and is going to cause problems I would think. But he is only starting P1 in September, and we have enriched curriculum here, so I think he'll be fine until at least P3.

Yup spiky, IQ scores on 95th centile, working memory 38th (this is still within average - so that's alright then )