My 14 year old dd has struggled a lot with her learning.
I have had many meetings with various teachers and they all concur that she doesn’t seem to concentrate at all in class, she appears to struggle to retain the information and often seems in a dream. She is like this at home.
Primary school said it was because she had no confidence and did little to help her.
It wasn’t until around 6 months ago when she sent me a Tik Tok about a girl with ADHD and tagged ‘Mum, this is just like me!’, that we realised she could indeed be neurodiverse? The more I starting looking into it, the more she ticks all of the boxes for inattentive ADHD (as do I but that’s another story all together!).
She does appear in a dream at times yet talks so fast that we have to tell her to slow down as we literally can not understand what she says. She really doesn’t appear to grasp info and keep it locked in.
So, around 6 months ago, with confirmation statements from a few of her teachers, I took her to see the GP who agreed to refer dd for an assessment.
I know NHS waiting times are long but I hadn’t heard anything so have just rang the hospital to ask how long the waiting list to be told it’s at least 2 years!
Dd will have left school by then.
I really don’t know what to do. I don’t have the money for a private assessment.
I spoke to the SENCO at her school and she said without a formal diagnosis they can do little to help her.
I feel so upset that dd is struggling so much and there appears to be little the school can do to help.
Has anyone else been in this position?