Hi,
my son with asd is nearly 6 years old and attends a mainstream school. he has full time 1:1 and is pretty much non verbal. he can say single words and will repeat alot of what he hears. he can now say the odd random sentence but can't hold conversations. his statement has in the provision that he should have weekly SALT whilst needed and that the SALT should work with the TA showing them what to do so the input can ease away from weekly from SALT and over to the TA. SALT is to monitor progress and contribute to IEP's. Now he is in a new school year he hasn't had any SALT input directly though the school say they know what to do. i don't think they are spending any time on speech specifically now and my question is should they? they will argue that his speech is improving and it is, but how do i know that it wouldn't of improved more with more specialist input? how do i know if he would have improved even more had he had more SALT direct input?? should i ask for more or ask the school to tell me what speech work they are doing with him? has any one else found this? its so hard to know whats best. i also don't want to be left wondering in years to come if he had had more input would he be better? its so hard to know!! i hope i make sense!!
