Hi all hope your all ok

just a quick one i urgently need some advice i applied for a statement for my son to start mainstream nursery in september and the phsycologist is coming to the home tomrow morning
and ive been told this is the importent person for the statement process

so i need advice on what do i need to tell them ?

well basically any tips ?

i dont want to big my son up too much incase we dont get much support

and i dont wanna say too less incase they say a special needs nursery will be better !!

so what do advice does any have ??

thankyou in advance

i am waiting in anticipation lol

ambreen

Say it exactly how it is, they are in the best position to tell you honestly what they think. be sure to make your preferences known and providing its not dangerous or completely impractical then they should do their absolute best to make sure he is able to attend a main stream support, if you are asked how many hours you believe he needs make sure you give a slightly higher number than what you would be happy with. its much easier to reduce the hours than increase them if he struggles more than you expect once he has started school.
good luck and i hope you get what you want, our educational psychologist was a bit useless but that worked in my favour, he was at my house for about 10mins, i told him what i wanted (place in special needs nursery at my first choice school) and that was what he recommended to the board and my son starts in september.
carrie x

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(This post was last modified: 06-21-2010 08:16 PM by logan_jacob_mummy.)

(06-21-2010 08:15 PM)logan_jacob_mummy Wrote:  Say it exactly how it is, they are in the best position to tell you honestly what they think. be sure to make your preferences known and providing its not dangerous or completely impractical then they should do their absolute best to make sure he is able to attend a main stream support, if you are asked how many hours you believe he needs make sure you give a slightly higher number than what you would be happy with. its much easier to reduce the hours than increase them if he struggles more than you expect once he has started school.
good luck and i hope you get what you want, our educational psychologist was a bit useless but that worked in my favour, he was at my house for about 10mins, i told him what i wanted (place in special needs nursery at my first choice school) and that was what he recommended to the board and my son starts in september.
carrie x

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aww thankyou carrie for this im not sure how many hours is full time ?? maybe 15 hours ? for nursery does this sound ok?

thankyou so much for that help

and im happy you got what u wanted in the end x

i think the general 3yr funding is something like 15hrs per week but im fairly sure a friend of mine whos daughter has additional needs managed to get extra hours funded ontop of the 15 by her local authority so it would be worth asking your ed psych about that too.
carrie x

As stated already tell it as it is try and write down all the keypoints before they come so you dont forget things and then start kicking yourself later.
Goodluck today and let us know how it goes