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Private ED Psych Assessors in Surrey Hampshire & time right for statementing?

James1

Hello 

Our son has just been diagnosed w ASD and is almost 8 years old. He has been on School Action Plus for some time yet never received any outside expert support ..eg. LEA Ed Psych. Pre diagnosis when we asked the school a this they said they were doing already doing taking all action that might reasonable come out of an assessment and anyway it was up to the LEA. When we contacted the LEA they first said that our son didnt meet criteria, then said the school had failed to budget for their services. 

During diagnostic process the Clinical Psychologist has clearly recommended full cognitive assessment. The LEA Ed Psych team have finally agreed to engage but have been so far coy about whether this will result in full assessment. 

With a recent diagnosits of ASD, which in many ways is very broad &generic description, we feel it's important to quickly get a clear profile of strengths, weaknesses, obstacles , development opportunities etc so that the interventions, especially at school will be effective. 

We have come to a conclusion that we need an independent Ed Psych Assessment just so we as parents quickly know wha the story is and can fight our SMS corner. 

 Two questions:

1.  Can anyone recommend a good independent Ed Psych assessor for kids with ASD in Surrey/Hampshire?

2. Based on situ described above is now the right time to press for a statement?

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  • Thanks Lou31. The health care team said the Ed Psych team would do the cognitive assessment but we may question that a little bit more.

    We are in a maintained school and we did speak to the Head and to the Board of Governors. We do now have engagement from the LEA Ed Psych but it feels like they will do some observation but I'm not expecting that they will do the cognitive assessments.

    I know a private assessment will be viewed as inflated by the LEA but on the other hand, after what we've been through, I don't think we can trust the school and the LEA on this in the way we could the NHS. There is a conflict of interest. As you say, at the very least it will be helpful to us as parents to have a clear profile and that alone is worth the hard earned money.

    Are statements hard to come by? Do most requests for statement fail? We thought, at the very least a request for statement might at least trigger a serious effort by the school and LEA to assess the need. Provisioning for them I suppose is another story.

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  • Thanks Lou31. The health care team said the Ed Psych team would do the cognitive assessment but we may question that a little bit more.

    We are in a maintained school and we did speak to the Head and to the Board of Governors. We do now have engagement from the LEA Ed Psych but it feels like they will do some observation but I'm not expecting that they will do the cognitive assessments.

    I know a private assessment will be viewed as inflated by the LEA but on the other hand, after what we've been through, I don't think we can trust the school and the LEA on this in the way we could the NHS. There is a conflict of interest. As you say, at the very least it will be helpful to us as parents to have a clear profile and that alone is worth the hard earned money.

    Are statements hard to come by? Do most requests for statement fail? We thought, at the very least a request for statement might at least trigger a serious effort by the school and LEA to assess the need. Provisioning for them I suppose is another story.

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