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Today my freind who is the parent of my son's freind told me that her son has 1:1 literacy lessons and has come on leaps and bounds since the beginning of term. The SENCO is in contact with her to tell her all this. School picked up that he may have a problem with learning a month before the end of last term, then at the end of term they were told that there would be loads of help in his class so will he be able to have a signifficant amount of help in class.

 

DS tells me that the boy is in another class for literacy and numeracy - the same class where DS's TA dissapeared to when she should have been in with DS! If I had not grilled DS about which lessons his TA was in with him I would never have known he was not being supported and would not have made his teacher change the set up so DS got the support (on paper not in practice).

 

So basically DS's 1:1 TA was in another class with this boy for those lessons, DS was left on his own. We all know what a nightmare it is to get a statement and all the hard work and years of stress - but it's ok, I'm so glad it has paid off and the help allocated to DS has been given to someone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh and on DS's statement it says that "he should have an individualised literacy program tailoured to suit his needs". He doesn't have this as far as I'm aware.

 

This boy has only just been identified as having problems - perhaps the school have in fact messed up and read the name on the top of DS's statement wrong and think it is for this other boy! :whistle:

 

Looks like I need to go and have a chat - again! I really don't think I have the will to carry on with this. Went to CHAMS on Friday and she is going to get in touch with school and find out what has been put in place for DS, like what literacy programe, have the staff been trained on all this and how they are going to impliment everything.

 

When is half term again?? :wallbash:

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First the good news - it is only 8 days until half term.

 

I really know how you are feeling, at one point I knew exactly how many school HOURS it was between one holiday and the next.

 

On a more practical point, have you tried to get parent partnership involved? I found them to be really useful witnesses at the (many) meetings I went to at my son's school. If nothing else, it does help maintain accurate records of who said what.

 

Another thing, I suggest, is insist on a daily record being kept of who you son has worked with. The best way to do this is to get a copy of the timetable, then present the school with a printed out list for each day and ask them to fill it in each (and every) day, and for whoever he is with, to note on his worksheet/ book that he had 1:1 support for that session.

eg

Monday-morning

Literacy- X was working with ................

maths-X was working with ..................

ICT -X was working with ................

 

Monday -afternoon

Guided reading - X was working with ...........

Science-X was working with ................

PE-X was working with ................

 

 

Hopefully they will think twice before leaving your son unsupported.

 

I don't know how old you son is, and whether it is worth looking at other schools, but it does seem to me that this one can not/will not meet his needs

 

Be strong - I will be thinking of you

 

Carol

 

 

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I had a meeting with his OT at CHAMS last week to go over the statement and what needs to be done to help him make progress. She is great and since no one else will communicate with me, not even the communication interaction team (which is amusing considering their name :devil: ) she is now a bit of a life line.

 

CHAMS phoned the teacher and left a message for her to call for a chat. CHAMS have said that she wants more specialist 1:1 help geared towards his learning style and needs and wants to meet with the teacher to see how they can impliment this. At our meeting she was very interested to hear about what training or knowledge the teacher/TA have had, I said I gave the SENCO my ASD information folder to photocopy and show the staff but I know the teacher hasn't seen it etc. We shall see what happens.

 

Carol, I love the idea of the list of when help is given. Thankyou, what a great idea. Parent Partnership work in the school and she is the ONLY reason that anything is done, every thing that has been done so far is down to her stopping me from giving up and making things happen.

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