Post by kanga2 on Jan 21, 2015 12:40:07 GMT
Tigger was placed with us aged 8. Motor skills poor, maybe due to lack of practice in her early years.
When she was 10 we raised to primary school various organisation problems she was having. These were dismissed, she was doing fine at school, in the middle of the class.
We did a private Ed Psych assessment which showed very skewed profile, some things in top 10%, others in bottom 10%.
At secondary I found I needed to give her a lot of support organising homework, working out how to do longer tasks, structuring answers etc.
Increasingly wondering about dyspraxia, seems a bit late now.
End of year 9 I asked school to assess her for laptop or extra time. Yup, she can use laptop for GCSEs. Result.
Laptop has been great for controlled assessments, as she can rearrange stuff, add in details etc.
Not so good for note-taking in class, her notes are zero use for revising from.
In year 10, also started thinking about 6th form colleges. They said having a 'diagnosis' would help them get correct support in place. End of year 10 asked doctor to refer for assessment.
This December, year 11, OT says yes she thinks dyspraxia. Also sent us a table of secondary school organisational issues. Tigger has almost every single one of them.
Asked school again re extra time in exams following this report (not really expecting to get it, but thought I should ask).
Tigger has just phoned to say she has done an assessment today, and school thinks she definitely should qualify so they are going to apply for extra time.
I have had to push this every step of the way. Exhausting. But hopefully worth it.
Next job - discuss with school re dropping a GCSE which she is failing in and which will take away masses of revision time from other GCSEs she can pass. They don't like pupils dropping things.
When she was 10 we raised to primary school various organisation problems she was having. These were dismissed, she was doing fine at school, in the middle of the class.
We did a private Ed Psych assessment which showed very skewed profile, some things in top 10%, others in bottom 10%.
At secondary I found I needed to give her a lot of support organising homework, working out how to do longer tasks, structuring answers etc.
Increasingly wondering about dyspraxia, seems a bit late now.
End of year 9 I asked school to assess her for laptop or extra time. Yup, she can use laptop for GCSEs. Result.
Laptop has been great for controlled assessments, as she can rearrange stuff, add in details etc.
Not so good for note-taking in class, her notes are zero use for revising from.
In year 10, also started thinking about 6th form colleges. They said having a 'diagnosis' would help them get correct support in place. End of year 10 asked doctor to refer for assessment.
This December, year 11, OT says yes she thinks dyspraxia. Also sent us a table of secondary school organisational issues. Tigger has almost every single one of them.
Asked school again re extra time in exams following this report (not really expecting to get it, but thought I should ask).
Tigger has just phoned to say she has done an assessment today, and school thinks she definitely should qualify so they are going to apply for extra time.
I have had to push this every step of the way. Exhausting. But hopefully worth it.
Next job - discuss with school re dropping a GCSE which she is failing in and which will take away masses of revision time from other GCSEs she can pass. They don't like pupils dropping things.
