learning assistants

does your child , have 1 for them selves in school

Danielle receives no help in school whatsoever. The head teacher is the SENCO & is completely useless. Her teacher (who she has had for the second year running) was newly qualified last year & is totally clueless. Its SO frustrating!!

oh my gosh ,
get labbs invoved , and ask for help ,
headteacher would be able to put refferreal in for u

Who are labbs?

behaviour section for school , were the education psyologists is based

jack at behaviour clinic this morning ,
he said be very calm this time been on meds ,
un like all the other times , flying around room , climbing been rude to me and doctor ,
running out of the room ,
appoimtment 10.30am

That sounds just like my D When we had the play worker come to our house to tell us what was going to happen when we went in to see her D started going "BORING" & was really showing me up.

Hope the appointment went ok. Fingers crossed for you both.

D just saw the Ed psych last week at school. How do I get in touch myself with labbs? Is there a website or something?

ask to see the ed psolo person , and get them to get labbs invovled ,

Just starting statement process - anyone else done it?
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yes we did it in may 06 ,

opps may o7 ,

both mine were statemented years ago kirsty 8 years ago david 5 years ago be persistant i was very got david into a special needs school within 6 weeks and it was holidays his school before said you will never do it i told um never say never they said we will see david back in school in september i told um not a chance hehe

Looks like its gonna be a slow process - appointment with ed psych is Mar 18 and she was rubbish with Joshua when we saw her 2 years ago - she said she couldn't engage him & he hated her - should be fun - ha ha !!!!!

Danielle saw the Ed Psych at school last week. Nobody has got back to me about their findings yet though. Its bloody hard work. Were about 18 months or so down the line now from our first visit to the GP to ask to be referred to CAMHS.

We were lucky and got to CAMHS quick but only because Joshua's asthma consultant in London has a psych attaached to his team and she got pushy for us.
I have to ring Jackie at CAMHS on Monday to give her the latest update - we were hoping to stay off meds for a while but school can't cope so he's back on them.
We were gonna try something different but have researched it and looks like not suitable for asthmatics - just our luck!

Pain about the meds. Jackie is cool isnt she? Have found CAMHS are ok as long as you push them, its school who are delaying things because they dont want to spend any of their money on supporting Danielle.

it took , 4 years and 2 school to get this fsr ,
lots of screams tears , attacks ect

Its a bloody nightmare.. Im seriously considering taking Danielle out of her school & moving her to another. Trouble is Melissa needs to stay put which makes things tricky..

fingers crossed for u xxxxxxxxx

We did move Joshua when he first had problems - his old school handled it really badly - the teachers told me in the middle of parents evening just as a by the way they thought he as ADHD - not qualified to do so and had already totally destroyed his self confidence. Within half a term he was a changed child and although he was still only on School Action Plus it has helped.
DON'T GIVE UP. Use Jackie as much as poss - she won't think you are a pain!

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Perhaps ill give Jackie a call next week when I get rid of this nasty cold. See if she can indicate how much longer this is likely to take & what she advises. Got Play Worker appointment next Wednesday. Think we have seen everyone now, so surely the official diagnosis cant be too far off?
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be persisent , with them ,
and update them regulary , so they no , how things are , good or bad ,
it gets things moving quicker , when things aren,t great

mine have teaching assistants in there class really helpful