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Hi Helen, We heard you the first time :lol:

 

Can you imagine all our kids at the airport let alone on a plane together :lol:

 

Viper.

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Hi I am in Christchurch, Dorset - have not come across the LEA yet other than to be told I have to do self-assessment on Julian sometime in September and then they will consider assessing him from my assessment and then if they are happy with that they will assess him (hope you got that!) :fight:

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I'm from Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

 

My message would have to be edited if I wrote what I really think about the LEA. Don't think of moving here. Our LEA spend �0 on "Therapies and other Health Related Services" last year - due to our refusal to back down over Speech and Language Therapy as an educational need there will be an increased spend this year! :thumbs:

 

You can find out lots of stuff about your LEA's spending via the DfES website - follow the link and then click on "data archive". Then download the Budget Detailed Report Table 1 - 2004-05 (401.60kbs) -it's an Excel file. Find your LEA in column B and then look at section 2.2.1 to 2.2.7 for info on spending on special needs.

 

Smileymab - I used to live in Yateley at the end of the sixties - they've built houses on all the fields I used to play on!

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Hi MotherEve,

you'll know all about my mention of donnygate in a recent post then !!

Nice to meet someone else from our town.

I'd just put South Yorkshire on my post here !

Cat's out of the bag now, there goes my anonymity, ah well, you can't hide forever.

 

wac

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you'll know all about my mention of donnygate in a recent post then !!

Nice to meet someone else from our town.

Don't mention Donnygate! My hubby works for the council!

 

Glad to know there's at least two of us in Doncaster! :D

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Oh dear! , nevermind we can escape that quagmire here !

According to our asd specialist teacher(lovely woman) there are 40+ children diagnosed in our area in this year alone.

Did you see the story in the local paper this week about the child with no school ?(he came to our playgroup for a short while)

It would be good to swap stories about the provision in our area, we too have a (undx by choice,so far) 9 yr old son, and can see problems ahead (that's in addition to our 5 yr old who has the dx, the statement, the provision, but NO respite !)

 

wac

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Hi,

 

I'm another Tyne and Wear mum - from Newcastle.

 

Haven't had much to do with the LEA yet as Martin was referred via the doctor - his teacher advised us it would be quicker and it has been, good old NHS certainly gets my vote. Got another meeting with the child psycologist tomorrow and for some reason they've got a second psycologist sitting in too?! Not sure why.

 

His first meeting with her was typical, she sat down to get us to sign some forms, and asked us what the date was (as you do). Martin replied - in his deadpan voice: "It's the 27th, because tomorrow is the 28th." Now how could she not work that out!

 

School originally became concerned because of his dyspraxia. He is down to be seen by a speech therapist through school and has FLS lessons within mainstream school which he loves. His current teacher his holding on to him for another year (Year 5) as she is used to his little ways and feels he will benefit more!

 

Well, back to work,

 

Daisy

 

:)

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Anybody from Ireland? C'mon, I know there are at least two from down here in the list ;) I am from Cork (there's my nick, Corcaigh, the Irish original name of the city).

Martina

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Hi I'm also from kent and my mum lives in Fareham Hants(we go there a lot!) would like to get together with any other Kent people for coffee - if poss? Anyone interested?

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anyone from west midlands, id love to get in touch with someone from my area B)

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Hi all, especially williamsaffire, kat, sharon, fiorelli, smileymab & Becky - I'm in the dreaded Hampshire club too :angry:

Going to tribunal in October had to wait till then cos apparently our beloved LEA are up to their eyeballs in tribunal hearings... :wallbash:

Have to give thumbs up to the carer service though - only known about them for a week and got further than I did with the LEA's idea of parental support in the whole of the last 2 years.... :thumbs:

I'd urge all of you to contact them if you haven't already.... :clap:

 

L

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Hi bluejean,

It's a small world, either that or the asd world is getting bigger !

It must be the latter, cos I can't go anywhere without meeting someone I know of.

You name reminds me that I went to see Bowie, and in an audience of 80,000 I saw two lots of people I knew from the small village I grew up in.

wac

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I'm from West Sussex. I have yet to find out what the LEA are like, but the statementing process is starting next term. Hopefully it will all work out.

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I live in south oxfordshire. Not sure about the LEA but everything else we need has waiting lists longer than a very long arm!

 

Lauren

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>>Going to tribunal in October had to wait till then cos apparently our beloved LEA are up to their eyeballs in tribunal hearings...

 

Hi Lesley. I have been told that Hants have now employed their own full-time barristor, so I guess they have nothing to lose by taking cases to trial (though I wonder what Ofsted will say).

 

Someone I know has just won their Tribunal against Hants for an independent specialist school, so it is still possible.

 

What Carers Service are you talking about Lesley?

 

Karen

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Wow thanks Karen I had a feeling they didn't care :angry::wallbash:

Mind you they'll need a barrister this time as they chose the wrong parent to argue with :angry::angry:

 

The carer service I mean is www.carercentre.com

They are part of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

No-one told me about them :wallbash: I had to find out myself :angry: but they have been wonderful :thumbs:

They are going to fill in all my DLA/Carers Allowance forms and take them to tribunal if they wont pay up :clap:

And she's going to come to our SEN tribunal in Oct :wub:

 

My dreams are answered! :notworthy:

 

L

xxx

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