What support does your child have

[jen]

I was wondering how many of our children have support if so how much?

 

Are certain LEAs more generous with the support.

 

Is the child in mainsteam school or special. Are the school happy with the support. Is the child statemented.

Have you been or going to tribunal

 

 

My child has a statement.

My child is aged 8 years in mainstream school LSA for 25 hours. School would like more increase in hours.

Been to tribunal once and in the process of going again.

 

 

Jen

[mossgrove]

Boy 8, Aspergers and Dyspraxia. in Special school with full-time 1:1 support.

 

Boy 6, Apergers and poss ADHD, in Special school without 1:1 support.

 

Both statemented without recourse to Tribunal, school happy with provision as LEA have provided what they asked for.

 

Simon

[Tez]

Jen,

 

A has a statement. Currently being educated in the home by the LEA but statement says that whilst in a mainstream environment he needs full time 1:1 support. LEA want him to be reintegrated back into a mainstream environment. School, EP, Consultant and OT say that will not be possible due to his severe sensory difficulties.

 

Will probably go to tribunal over the statement because it is not clearly specified and quantified and LEA are trying to restrict tuition to 5 hours per week and only for core curriculum subjects of Maths, Science and English. They claim this is because they don't want to overload him. The truth is that this is all they able to provide whilst he remains at home and they are struggling to do this. Due to take his GCSEs next year and he wants to take the other subjects he was doing at school as well and which the EP report says he should be allowed to do.

 

I don't think there is a lack of desire to provide A with what he needs, just a lack of resources. I don't believe it is a question of finance more a question of finding a teacher who is willing to help. The Head of our LEA Inclusion and Access team keeps saying, "it shouldn't be beyond the wit of an LEA to provide x, y and z." But when it comes down to the teachers in schools are unwilling to go beyond what they contract requires of them.

[CarerQuie]

Son statemented and in a special school.3 adults with 12 children in his class.xx

[justamom]

Son 12 - On Action Plus - Mainstream School looking into the extra 5hrs heard about on this forum. Does have LSA in the class but she helps alot of the "special needs" children. They said he gets too attached to adults if they concentrate just on him

[Flora]

DS1, AS and dyspraxia. SA+. Adjustments made at school. No extra help. Going to secondary in September on flexible time table.

 

DS2. ASD, language disorder and dyslexia. School action. No extra help

[lancelot]

Son aged 10, Aspergers and OCD, statemented, mainstream school with 20 hrs support, school hoping to increase this at review, but from the sound of things we're very lucky to have that much.

[PinkSapphireAngel]

ds aged 11 with aspergers/asd/dyspraxia and severe anxiety with self harming due to school stress (only showing at home of course) not statemented, refused assessment and we went to tribunal a week ago.

he gets 2 15 minute sessions a week where unqualified classroom assisstant is meant to follow his exercises but this does not happen every week and as he is school action plus they can do it when they feel like and not when they don't basically.

he goes to a co called social skills group for 1 half hour session a week where he is the eldest by at least 2 years.

 

other ds aged 8 has mears irlen and specific learning difficulties (whatever that is meant to mean) has trouble with reading, writing and spelling, possible dyslexia also school action plus, never applied for assessment for statement yet, has input most days for literacy without success, might look into applying for assessment when I get him out of that usesless school.

[BusyLizzie100]

Son aged six, ASD, has 12 hours of Statemented support in mainstream made up to 15 by the school. Also gets input from SALT - three visits a term.

 

Son aged eight, Asperger's, SA+, adjustments made at school but no extra help. We are on the verge of applying for Statutory Assessment.

[col]

DD 8 special school class of 10 children, teacher, LSA, SALT, SALT assistant. Signed environment. (statemented)

DD 7 mainstream out of borough. Statemented (due to the fact that she's out of boro and so the money comes out a different kitty) she gets once a week SALT , specialist lang teacher once a week and 12.5 hrs LSA.

 

DS when he gets old enough the way the boro is going will properly get SFA

[sonia]

Nathan is in year 2 and has ASD. He is statemented with 25 hrs classroom support and 5 hrs playtime supported by the school in a large London mainstream primary.

He is doing well and we have his statement quantified and specified with Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy. His school have agreed to Early bird+ so starting that hopefully this year.

Sonia xx

[clintess]

my ds goes 2 mainstream,on school action plus has 1;1 every morning ,small group session every afternoon also izzywizzy club 4 gross/fine motor skills.

[rainbow queen]

my 4 year old is on school action plus

in mainstream

no statement

receives speech therapy,and small group work.

no dx as yet.

[Tylers-mum]

Son, 6yrs old, HFA, in mainstream school with a statement, school action plus and 10hrs LSA support. School happy with that level, I am not!

[darky]

Son 12 - On Action Plus - Mainstream School looking into the extra 5hrs heard about on this forum. Does have LSA in the class but she helps alot of the "special needs" children. They said he gets too attached to adults if they concentrate just on him

 

sorry just had to comment on this!! my daughters last school said exactly the same as this! her new school give her a lot of support, she sits on a fullysupported table and has one to one when ever they can, especialy with maths. her present senco said to me her words! "thats an excuse, that is a very good way of getting out of supporting, its dangerous to withdraw support when its needed for these kids"

[JenRose]

M who is 9 has AS, severe sensory issues, is currently receiving 2hours a week home tuition, they want us to put him back into school but as we have been turned down for a statement we have said no, going to tribunal for assessment

[av16]

My 8 yr old son dx AS in mainstream has some 1 to 1 support- doesn't like it to be too obvious as he wants to be 'normal'. He's on school action +, has a psp (not a new playstation!] and has been turned down by our LEA for assessment. Has had 2 exclusions before dx, 1 internal since- mainly due to 'Golden time'. School really supportive our LEA (school in another LEA] useless.

[westie]

My son is 7 and has diagnosis of PDA, he is statemented but the LEA work on a banding system which equates to a certain amount of funding to the school and anything above that the school has to provide from the funds the LEA supplies to school to support special needs. I am not expert so may be wrong but this is my understanding.

The bandings are different for different needs (B for behaviour, A for autistic spectrum disorder for example, and there are different levels with 1 being the highest and 5 the lowest level of support (funding). If a child fits more than one band ie has ASD but has behaviour issues or learning disability issues then the 'band' they fit into will be the one which is causing them the most issues: if the child has ASD but who also has severe behaviour problems they would be banded on the 'B scale'. My son is on level B4 his statement has just been amended and school asked for B3 but they maintained his current level. The school have to find the funds for extra support if needed, i think that at the minute they are trying to set something up for after the easter hols.

[Brook]

My son 7yrs old, dx ASD.

Has a statement with 20hrs support.

 

Home educated by myself.

Looking into provision at the moment.

 

Brook

[KarenT]

My ds is 7, no dx as yet but suspected AS.

 

He keeps his lid on at school but often explodes when he leaves, thus it is a HOME problem rather than a SCHOOL problem

 

He's on SA+ at the moment because of the involvement of the Behaviour Support Service (at our request), but given that he's in a very settled patch at the moment I doubt she'll pick up on much so no doubt he'll go back to SA when she's finished. Basically school think he doesn't have much of a problem because he's high-achieving and copes OK in school (on the surface and while he's there).

 

Support wise we get nowt, apart from him being allowed to stay in the classroom at breaktime if he feels the need, and the option of a few minutes time-out with a book. There's no such provision at lunchtime because of staff availability.

 

Karen

x

[Malika]

H is on school action +

 

My son whith ASD some sensory issue and very distractable had language delay for many years but has now caught up even if pragmatic language difficuties remain, has difficulties in recording everything in writting his social interaction his definitly seriously impaired and at the moment he is refusing to work with anybody even the TA.

Well after a lost case for statutory assesment he has 1 hour with the SENCO with some social stories writting and some form of little OT exercise, 2 hours with the TA (1 hour litteracy 1 hour numeracy) who has just spend 1 hour training with the communication specialist, H was suppose to spend 2 1/2 hours with our sportman for social groupe but he is not trained and put lot on the physical aspect in the groupe and now H has refused to go ... however this year h teacher seems to understand him quite well so she set up a table for him separated from the others and in front of the interactive board. He is not included as such but much happier.

The 2 hours with the TA were suppose to be for litteracy but as the board groupe for numeracy stoped the TA is doing numeracy with him.

 

Malika.

[Yorkie]

Cannot believe this thread.........................

 

My Little Fella is &, dx AS & Dyspraxia, and have statement for full time SNA who is fab. Have had major battles about lunchtime supervision and am most hated mum at school cos of this . Head has finally agreed to have 1 specific dinnerlady responsible for him for continuity which helps him not have so many meltdowns and aggressive episodes.

 

School are making SNA's life a misery she has been told not to speak to me outside school and to cut down on info in home/school diary. She is ow looking for another job and I am sooooooo angry. Cannot speak to Head about this as I am not meant to know details from SNA, am gonna lose her and my lad is the only one that will suffer.

 

Have fought for nearly 3 years to get the right support for my lad and am now looking to lose it cos the Head and Teacher have problems with the SNA's knowledge and will not let her do her job properly, they undermine her and treat her like cr*p and shes gonna leave.

 

Having read this thread, I am torn between feeling angry for all you parents that have ###### all support, and guilty that I have managed to get the suppport for my lad. (although its been a long hard battle with Leeds LEA)

 

Its absolutely ludicrous that we have kids similar, and yet the level of support differs so much from area to area.

 

makes me so damn

[bugbug]

Son with autism has 15 hours Statement Support within mainstream school and SALT regular.

 

Refused assessment initially, applied to go for tribunal then LEA backed down immediately.