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[admum]

My son has another year to go before transfer to secondary. We fought at tribunal and won and hes been in a small independent special school for Dyslexi and Dyspraxia. His dx is Aspergers, adhd and Dyspraxia. He doesnt have a dx of learning difficulties but has difficulties with maths. He is about 1-2 years behind although it is improving since changed schools. He has a very good reading ability and at 9 is reading his way though the Antony Horowitcz series. THe lea will push for a return to mainstream which im very unsure about. At school he gets weekly ot with an ot 1-1 and daily ot/yoga lesson for co-ordination and stress as a part of a group. He gets salt 1-1 and a social skills group. I suspect that in secondary school this will all disappear. At the present he is v stressed and we are concerned that if he is feeling like that in a small speciliast school how would he cope in a large mainstream secondary. We were looking at xxxxx Academy that takes adhd kids and "mild" ASd. Does anyone know of this school. Can anyone email or message me their views on secondary schools in the london area - private or state that may be appropriate. Ive been told to look at boarding but that will be a fight for lea! Thanks

[nellie]

Hi Admum,

 

I would have thought you have a good case for keeping your son in a specialist placement. Have the reasons for placing him in this type of environment changed? Have your sons needs changed since being placed there?

 

By the way it's forum policy not to name schools, the following explains. There is nothing to stop people emailing or sending PM with information on schools.

 

Naming schools

http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.ph...t=0entry13271

 

You can find information on schools here.

PARIS New NAS Info. Service, Public Autism Resource & Information Services

http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1577

 

Good luck

 

Nellie xx

[Kazzen161]

>>At school he gets weekly ot with an ot 1-1 and daily ot/yoga lesson for co-ordination and stress as a part of a group. He gets salt 1-1 and a social skills group

 

Are these things specified in his statement? A mainstream secondary would not be able to provide these, so if his statement says he needs them, then mainstream would be out.

 

Karen

[admum]

We only won at tribunal on costs. The mainstream primary claimed that they could organise the salt and ot as recommended although denied he needed it. They are in the statement ( tribunal acepted our evidence)But it was cheaper for him to go to the specilaist school when it was all added together and so we won. If we dont pay trasport ( which we conceded) then he has to go back to mainstream. Which means tribunal fudged the decision in my view. I know that it would be another battle once got to secondary. And the tribunal didnt accept that he was stressed by school per se or that it was because it was a big school the inference being that it stress caused by THAT school which had so obviuosly failed him. I dont think his needs have changed. I think its just increasingly apparent how stressful he finds school and the whole social side. Lunch and playtimes are awful as he is effectively excluded from football which the maj play as hes so bad at it and also the way he interacts. He is happier building with knex. The local state special schools are not apropriate as full of EBD and not working at an appropriate level. The nearest one is awful. There is no specialist asd secondary places. He needs small class sizes and small environment with asd trained staff. And appropriate academic work able to deal with his big discrepancies. I dont want him going somewhere where he wont be able to do gcses if capable which he should be given IQ but perhaps may take longer due to concentration difficulties.