Hi, my 5 year old daughter recently had an ASD diagnosis. She is high functioning and ahead of many of her peers academically. At school she is well behaved. However, her diagnosis report highlighted her difficulties in having a two way conversation, her lack of understanding of friendship, her odd use of language (although it was complex) and her inability to recognise emotions from pictures. There were other things too.
I gave the report to the school but they seem disinterested. They said they were surprised at her diagnosis. They said I would probably meet with the Senco to see if there was anything they could do at school. My feeling is that there are things they could do to help with her social interaction that it is very difficult for me to work on at home with her on her own.
Can the school refuse to put her on the SEN register if they don’t see any problems at school? (there will be problems but on the surface it doesn’t always look like it). Do I have a right to SEN provision for her or is this something they decide based on the needs they think she has (as opppsed to her consultant).
I would appreciate some advice as next term I want to push for a meeting as it’s been a few weeks now and I’ve had nothing from the Senco.
thanks in advance
