jaj Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Hi New to the site but have been reading posts for a few weeks. My 13 year old looks likely to get a diagnosis of high functioning aspergers at the begining of Sept. We are at the proposed statement stage. At the mo he is at a pupil referral unit having been permanently excluded from school( we challenged this and it was overturned at appeal but we did not feel he could go back as relationships have broken down). LEA have recommended a school which when I visited I felt was awful was mainly for kids with significant behavioural problems. Son has problems with social interaction mainly in unstructured times and when he percieves a situation as threatening he can be aggressive or will go to othe extreme and withdraw completely. But he is not badly behaved on a day to day basis he is polite helpful and considerate. He is also very accademically able and this school had almost no results at GCSE level. The kids at the school were swearing and abusive to the staff and leave class on a regular basis. Just don't think this is the right place. However LEA say and I have checked locally there are not many other options. Have found an independent special school which seemed to use many of the approaches we use at home and is accademically challenging but they cater only for children with aspergers diagnosis. Problem is thet this will not be made before the LEA want to finalise the statement so they say I can't put it down as my prefered school. Any suggestions? We are meeting LEA soon to disscuss proposed statement which does not say how much when or who will provide his support which we are going to ask them to put in it. I am exhausted what with school appeal and now the fight for a statement and then for a school no doubt!!!!!Is it always like this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickyB Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Hello and welcome My son is 6 and has a diagnosis of high functioning autism. We are currently fighting with the LEA to get them to carry out stautory asessment. Thankfully the school are fantastic, so at least we don't have to fight them It seems that almost everything is a fight, and it shouldn't be that way. You'll find lots of support here Nicky <'> Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bid Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Hi New to the site but have been reading posts for a few weeks. My 13 year old looks likely to get a diagnosis of high functioning aspergers at the begining of Sept. We are at the proposed statement stage. At the mo he is at a pupil referral unit having been permanently excluded from school( we challenged this and it was overturned at appeal but we did not feel he could go back as relationships have broken down). LEA have recommended a school which when I visited I felt was awful was mainly for kids with significant behavioural problems. Son has problems with social interaction mainly in unstructured times and when he percieves a situation as threatening he can be aggressive or will go to othe extreme and withdraw completely. But he is not badly behaved on a day to day basis he is polite helpful and considerate. He is also very accademically able and this school had almost no results at GCSE level. The kids at the school were swearing and abusive to the staff and leave class on a regular basis. Just don't think this is the right place. However LEA say and I have checked locally there are not many other options. Have found an independent special school which seemed to use many of the approaches we use at home and is accademically challenging but they cater only for children with aspergers diagnosis. Problem is thet this will not be made before the LEA want to finalise the statement so they say I can't put it down as my prefered school. Any suggestions? We are meeting LEA soon to disscuss proposed statement which does not say how much when or who will provide his support which we are going to ask them to put in it. I am exhausted what with school appeal and now the fight for a statement and then for a school no doubt!!!!!Is it always like this. Welcome to the forum It's a few years ago now for us, but if I remember correctly you can 'stop the clock' on the time scale involved when you get to the proposed Statement stage. This might give you time to get the formal dx of AS. Hopefully someone who has more up-to-date experience with Statementing will be along soon to clarify this point. Bid Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tally Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Hello, and welcome to the forum. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kathryn Report post Posted August 12, 2009 (edited) Hello and welcome I think you should let the LA go ahead and finalise the statement as soon as possible, with their choice of school in part 4. You can then start the appeal process in the hope that in the meantime you will get the diagnosis and the assurance that there is a place available at the independent school. Negotiate as much as possible with the LA to get the wording changed so that parts 2 and 3 are as detailed as possible and describe as closely as possible the kind of support and environment the independent school provides. Presumably the independent school have said they could offer your son a place as and when he is diagnosed? K x Edited August 12, 2009 by Kathryn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaj Report post Posted August 13, 2009 Hello and welcome I think you should let the LA go ahead and finalise the statement as soon as possible, with their choice of school in part 4. You can then start the appeal process in the hope that in the meantime you will get the diagnosis and the assurance that there is a place available at the independent school. Negotiate as much as possible with the LA to get the wording changed so that parts 2 and 3 are as detailed as possible and describe as closely as possible the kind of support and environment the independent school provides. Presumably the independent school have said they could offer your son a place as and when he is diagnosed? K x Hi all Thank you for your replys. First things first we will negotiate with LA over the wording in parts 2 and 3. The independent school said they could meet his needs but would need to do a 3 day assessment. to do this school needs to be named on the statement then they would offer a place if funding was agreed by LA. I discovered that if I the LA won't name the school I can pay for the assessment privatley and then go to appeal. But need diagnosis confirmed. Will see how meeting goes with LA. Am in touch with parents in partnership who are great in my area except they don't work school hols!!! J.x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
