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School bombshell

NinjaMouse

My LO is 6 weeks into her reception year following 18 months of pre-school at the same school.  The school called a meeting this week and advised that they don't feel she will be able to cope with mainstream in the long term and that I should seriously consider looking at special needs provisions.   

It has come as an incredible shock and out of the blue.  The school have never previously voiced any concerns about her ability to cope and in fact she has made amazing progress and feedback has always been good.   I am left feeling suspicious of their motives, as there is another child with Autism in the class and now a Yr1 child is going through the diagnosis process and has been pulled back into reception too.  

I am not sure what my next steps should be, but I feel I want some independent and professional assessment before I entertain this sort of massive upheaval.  

Does anyone have any advice or experience? We have had no support outside the speech therapist since her diagnIsis.

  • It is up to you as the parent at the end of the day. You should really speak to people as to what they think should be best. My son is 4 at Christmas and has been at his current pre school since just before age 3. We had a diagnosis for him at age 2 so the pre school were aware before he started and have been brilliant with him but he already has his educational health and care plan which is what you need for a special school, his school place actually gets decided on Thursday at a special needs school. He is however completely non verbal no hand gestures has lots of sensory issues and behaviour problems due to lack of speech and personally i feel that a mainstream school wouldn't have been able to cope with him and wouldn't be fair with the rest of the children in the class as he can be very violent. If you request the educational health and care plan then they do get assessed by various professionals and then it goes to panel to see if they think the child should get it. It is a very personal choice though and the decision is really down to you.