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george

My son matthew is 6 years old and is in mainstream school. he has a Statement and gets lots of support from a very nice teaching assistant who is with him most of the time. He seems reasonably happy, however he does not really play with his peers and is falling further and further behind his classmates academically. I recently visited a Special Needs school and was very impressed. I am now beginning to reconsider my earlier decision to keep him in a mainstream school. Although he gets lots of support is he been taught in the correct way, self esteem etc etc does anyone have any views?

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  • Hello,

    We're about to receive our draft statement and are pondering schools. At the moment my daugther is in a mainstream school and has proven to be academically very bright but also with subtle and complex social & language difficulties (HFA). We've always felt a mainstream state school could not support both, and remain unconvinced a statement will change this, especially in these hard times. The question is, would putting her in either a special school or a school with a special/language unit/autism resource base, have any negative effects on her academic development? My current thinking is that at this age (Y2), social development should take priority over academic development and we should be looking for a school with a suitable unit/resource base who can implement the statement in intent not just to the letter far better than a standard mainstream school. Does such a school exist in Birmingham? I have no idea.

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  • Hello,

    We're about to receive our draft statement and are pondering schools. At the moment my daugther is in a mainstream school and has proven to be academically very bright but also with subtle and complex social & language difficulties (HFA). We've always felt a mainstream state school could not support both, and remain unconvinced a statement will change this, especially in these hard times. The question is, would putting her in either a special school or a school with a special/language unit/autism resource base, have any negative effects on her academic development? My current thinking is that at this age (Y2), social development should take priority over academic development and we should be looking for a school with a suitable unit/resource base who can implement the statement in intent not just to the letter far better than a standard mainstream school. Does such a school exist in Birmingham? I have no idea.

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