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A statement for my HFA daughter year 7!

tbag

Hi all

Just to update you all and offer hope to others;

My now 12 year old daughter has been given a statement and a place in a school with a base for autism! (massive sigh of relief!). This is despite having good literacy skills and her primary school and high school (which she only attended 8 times!) both telling the Educational psychologist that they didn't notice any problems. If you read my previous postings you will see my daughter had massive problems at school, but all of the suffering was her's. She was well behaved and did her work, thats all that mattered to them! It has been a real struggle to get her any support, she is passive autistic and has a blank expression that doesn't show signs of distress until she gets home and lets it all out. Her cognative age was 7 on the psychologists test, the school did not notice!!!!

But we have got there in the end! This is hopefully the start of proper help and understanding for her! :)

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  • That must have been infuriating.  I'm not a bit fan of Camhs tbh from both personal and professional point of view but I believe there are some good workers out there.

    I was lucky in that the primary school were the ones to tell me there was a problem however they never suspected being on the spectrum until she was 10 and then didn't want to put words in my mouth.  Sadly, the first paedatrician she saw thought it was all 'in my head'.

    She had two EP reports at primary but I don't think either mentioned a cognitive age.  There were lots of scores on there that meant nothing to me and I only know her IQ because at the transition meeting, the new Senco asked the EP.

    How come you have to wait until September before she starts school?  Can she not start mid year?

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  • That must have been infuriating.  I'm not a bit fan of Camhs tbh from both personal and professional point of view but I believe there are some good workers out there.

    I was lucky in that the primary school were the ones to tell me there was a problem however they never suspected being on the spectrum until she was 10 and then didn't want to put words in my mouth.  Sadly, the first paedatrician she saw thought it was all 'in my head'.

    She had two EP reports at primary but I don't think either mentioned a cognitive age.  There were lots of scores on there that meant nothing to me and I only know her IQ because at the transition meeting, the new Senco asked the EP.

    How come you have to wait until September before she starts school?  Can she not start mid year?

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