Can anybody explain to me what neuropsychology is?

TeegansNan

I know I'm a bit emotional today but the thought of you going through all of this, your daughter being 'locked inside herself' and what your toddler is going through is making me want to find you and hug you for your efforts. The responses from others with such helpful advice is just amazing too! What a wonderful lot of folk read this site. Thank you to everyone from me - and I'm not the one with the problem.:rotfl:

Keep up the good work every one x:)

teabag29

Thanks ladies, I guess this is a step in the right direction then

blue_monkey_2

Teabag, this forum will be a great help you, lots of people on there with special need in education and Home Ed experience: http://netpals.lsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A0=he-special-uk

I found it quite hard to get how to subscribe but now I get a daily digest. There might be something to help. If you cannot get the gist, om me with your email address and I will forward the daily digest so you can go via one of the thread link on that. It is quite a hard forum to get round but some people on there with excellent advice who have lots of experience.

I know how hard it can be as I have issues with my son too. It is just fight, fight, fight. My friends son only had Y1 reading and writing ability at age 12 but he was also refused statementing as he was 'good at science'.

I would also be looking at changing schools as this one is clearly no good for your daughters needs. They might be OK for other kids needs, but not for your daughters. You can apply for a statement - you do NOT need the schools help for this - and name another school on the statement and then the LEA have a responsibility to get that child to school.

As for OFSTED, around here they give the Special Needs kids the day off when the Inspector is due so that they 'do not cause any problems' (read that as so the Inspector cannot see we cannot deal with them). More recently they pick parents of kids on the SEN register and will give them a seperate questionnaire to see how the school copes with their children.

Good luck.

teabag29

mucklebones wrote: »

I think I mentioned this once before on your thread, but I really think your daughter might benefit from seeing an OT to rule out some sensory issues. It would seem she could have difficulties here from what you mention, and sometimes having sensory problems can present itself in behaviours that are difficult to modify. She may also benefit from therapies which could aid more calmness and help her sleep better.

She did see an OT a few weeks back who asessed her for dyspraxia along with a physiotherapist. She said spd was a possibility but they are not comissioned to test for it in our area and so all she could do was add dd name on a list with all the other kids that would benefit from a spd asessement in the hope that 1 day they fund for this in our area

shegirl

teabag29 wrote: »

She did see an OT a few weeks back who asessed her for dyspraxia along with a physiotherapist. She said spd was a possibility but they are not comissioned to test for it in our area and so all she could do was add dd name on a list with all the other kids that would benefit from a spd asessement in the hope that 1 day they fund for this in our area

Could they not,at the very least,go through the sensory questionairre with you to look for pointers?

I know what it's like with OTs though.My son started being assesed and visiting professionals at 2,was diagnosed at 4 with severe autism,gdd etc etc we all knew he had spd but nothing 'diagnosed' as such,yet he only saw an OT for the first time this year at the age of 12! We were referred around 3/4 years ago:eek:

LadyMorticia

Didn't want to read and run. I'd go to the police about the attack. It's assault.

It really sounds like the school are failing your daughter. At my old school, which was also mainstream, there were a few kids who were closer to their age academically but were still statemented. Heck, I never had any issues academically but still had alot of support from SEN staff (more so than your daughter ) because I had three years out of school (from age 11-14) and was also put back a year because I lacked any social skills.

I really feel like the school are "copping out" and that makes me so sad for you and your daughter.

I've been reading alot of your threads about your's and your daughter's struggle and it just makes me so sad for both of you.

mucklebones

teabag29 wrote: »

She did see an OT a few weeks back who asessed her for dyspraxia along with a physiotherapist. She said spd was a possibility but they are not comissioned to test for it in our area and so all she could do was add dd name on a list with all the other kids that would benefit from a spd asessement in the hope that 1 day they fund for this in our area

Thats a shame she might have to wait some time, couldnt you get a referral out of the area? Thinking of you as much as her, if she is having sensory difficulties she and you would benefit from a diagnosis. There are lots of therapies which could help her and you would know how to help her if that was the case.

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if i were you i would report such a serious incident at school to the police immediately

blue_monkey_2

It is really hard to get referrals, and unless you are paying, they'll certainly not let you go out of area - this is the kind of thing that we, as parents, face. It is a continuous fight, fight, fight if your child has difficulties. It takes years to get a diagnosis in many cases, shocking that it takes so long on the face of it and even then they give you a diagnosis and then that is it, DS was refered to several services 4 years ago and I've still not had a single appointment though or contact.

As for his paediatrician, DS is supposed to have follow ups every 6 months but whenever I called she said she was busy - so after 15 months of being told she was too busy to see him, I went private - I called the PCT about something and the paed found out and wanted to see him that week. When we got there she said it was not her fault she could not see me and her words were 'I have all these notes on my desk, this parent has called 5 times, this parent has called 6 times' upshot was that I had not harrassed her enough to warant getting seen - those that did not call enough were simply shoved to the back of the queue.

This is what it is like all over, I know we are not a unique case, however unless we pay there is no-one else to see on the NHS.

peachyprice

GET HER OUT OF THAT SCHOOL

They are failing your daughter on so many levels now, it's beyond a joke.