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Statements !!

valley girl

I am sure that many of you out there have been through the nightmare of refusals to assess,refusals to issue statements and trying to deal with Sendist. We took 3 years to get my nine year old sons statement and we were over the moon when it arrived in July. Great we thought - things will be much easier now. Not so !! Even though he has a statement for 23 hours a week I am still having to chase up everything, go and see the teacher everyweek and generally check everything is being provided. My relationship with the school is getting worse rather than better.

My son is in Year 5 now and we need to start considering secondary schools. We try to be positive but I cant see him surviving there let alone making progress.

Is anyone else feeling this way or had the same problems  or have any advice !!

Are Statements worth the paper they are printed on !!

xxx

 

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  • Our son has Aspergers and has had a statement since year 5 (he is now yr 6). It has been a strange mixture of the school encouraging us to apply for a statement, and them seeming to think that once everything was written down all will be well.

    They kept forgetting that they were supposed to actually do what is on the statement.

    We found the specialist teachers to be very supportive and 1 has been an excellent advocate for our son; with her help provision has improved and more importantly the schools attitude towards our son has improved. The school have stopped saying that our son should be at a special school , or that he must be mentally ill, and have started accepting that his difficulties are due to AS. They now have to accept that his cognitive tests put him in the highly intelligent range, and that they need to stop dumbing down the work and give him strategies to cope with the pressures of the classroom instead.

     

    We have found a secondary school whse SENCO seems to really understand his needs and without looking at his statement offered him all the support it lists. The LA have obviously refused to pay his transport and said he can only have a place there if we sign a tranpsort waiver form. It makes me very cross as the catchment school have said they will not offer pretty much anything on his statement but can still meet his needs. So we have written letters to the LA. But the bottom line is we have signed the form as we want him to go to themost appropriate school .

     

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  • Our son has Aspergers and has had a statement since year 5 (he is now yr 6). It has been a strange mixture of the school encouraging us to apply for a statement, and them seeming to think that once everything was written down all will be well.

    They kept forgetting that they were supposed to actually do what is on the statement.

    We found the specialist teachers to be very supportive and 1 has been an excellent advocate for our son; with her help provision has improved and more importantly the schools attitude towards our son has improved. The school have stopped saying that our son should be at a special school , or that he must be mentally ill, and have started accepting that his difficulties are due to AS. They now have to accept that his cognitive tests put him in the highly intelligent range, and that they need to stop dumbing down the work and give him strategies to cope with the pressures of the classroom instead.

     

    We have found a secondary school whse SENCO seems to really understand his needs and without looking at his statement offered him all the support it lists. The LA have obviously refused to pay his transport and said he can only have a place there if we sign a tranpsort waiver form. It makes me very cross as the catchment school have said they will not offer pretty much anything on his statement but can still meet his needs. So we have written letters to the LA. But the bottom line is we have signed the form as we want him to go to themost appropriate school .

     

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