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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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  • ojqmum said:

    The mainstream school my son was at told me that I would never get a statement because my son was too clever and needed to be 2 years academically behind before anything could be done.  I thought they were the experts and knew what they were doing so i believed them!  How wrong I was!!  After a long traumatic journey my son now has a statement and started at a special school in September where he is finally being taught the life skills he needs in order to survive by dedicated caring professionals who DO know what they are doing xxx

    We have been told it is highly unlikely as our son is high functoning, very intelligent (that he is ahead of the class) and is coping well. However, my school has a high number of special needs children and so are able to cope well. They did say they would monitor his progress as they know it may go downhill when he is constantly sat at a desk. He is seeing an educational psyhcologist next month to advise us on what help he does need as his behaviour has gone downhill this term but we still expect a no on the statement.

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  • ojqmum said:

    The mainstream school my son was at told me that I would never get a statement because my son was too clever and needed to be 2 years academically behind before anything could be done.  I thought they were the experts and knew what they were doing so i believed them!  How wrong I was!!  After a long traumatic journey my son now has a statement and started at a special school in September where he is finally being taught the life skills he needs in order to survive by dedicated caring professionals who DO know what they are doing xxx

    We have been told it is highly unlikely as our son is high functoning, very intelligent (that he is ahead of the class) and is coping well. However, my school has a high number of special needs children and so are able to cope well. They did say they would monitor his progress as they know it may go downhill when he is constantly sat at a desk. He is seeing an educational psyhcologist next month to advise us on what help he does need as his behaviour has gone downhill this term but we still expect a no on the statement.

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