Hi, wishing you a good outcome! My son gotten his EHCP in year 6, but whilst awaiting the EHCP, our school had already put so many strategies, interventions, provisions, time out, social com classes, ELSA and support in place following the Edu psych report and speech and language. We actually were still awaiting ASD diagnoses when we were awarded the EHCP. Your child is already with SENCO, so the school should really step up, because if KCC sees that the school had already applied this support, it validates its necessity. The school explained, that my son would not be getting much more support than he already is receiving, but that this is crucial for going to secondary, where they would not offer as much without EHCP. Before we had our mitigation meeting, the school requested KCC to provide them with a list of evidence that they need to consider our application successful, and they gotten all of the reports and testimonies from teachers who worked with my son over the years. During the mitigation, despite being prepared to be an assertive prepared mum, I broke down and was very emotional, and our head of SENCO took over and fought the battle. I was surprised at how cold the KCC people, who were ex teachers, were towards the difficulties my son and our family goes through. In retrospective, it reminds me of surgeons being chill when they see someone injured. Anyway, wishing you good luck x
I feel stuck in the middle at the minute it is literally like they're saying school aren't already doing enough already so we won't step in either. I'm trying to be tougher on school and put my foot down and say these need to be in place now! We've known since he was in pre school that he would need a high level of support my worry is the damage it does him all this time that he is masking so well and pretending to be ok.
Hi, wishing you a good outcome! My son gotten his EHCP in year 6, but whilst awaiting the EHCP, our school had already put so many strategies, interventions, provisions, time out, social com classes, ELSA and support in place following the Edu psych report and speech and language. We actually were still awaiting ASD diagnoses when we were awarded the EHCP. Your child is already with SENCO, so the school should really step up, because if KCC sees that the school had already applied this support, it validates its necessity. The school explained, that my son would not be getting much more support than he already is receiving, but that this is crucial for going to secondary, where they would not offer as much without EHCP. Before we had our mitigation meeting, the school requested KCC to provide them with a list of evidence that they need to consider our application successful, and they gotten all of the reports and testimonies from teachers who worked with my son over the years. During the mitigation, despite being prepared to be an assertive prepared mum, I broke down and was very emotional, and our head of SENCO took over and fought the battle. I was surprised at how cold the KCC people, who were ex teachers, were towards the difficulties my son and our family goes through. In retrospective, it reminds me of surgeons being chill when they see someone injured. Anyway, wishing you good luck x
I feel stuck in the middle at the minute it is literally like they're saying school aren't already doing enough already so we won't step in either. I'm trying to be tougher on school and put my foot down and say these need to be in place now! We've known since he was in pre school that he would need a high level of support my worry is the damage it does him all this time that he is masking so well and pretending to be ok.