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Post by fuzzywuzzy on Jul 2, 2013 22:59:39 GMT
For those with children who have ADHD, have you found this?
Through various parent support groups, I have found time and time again that there are educational teams with specialist autism knowledge who can be brought in to advise/educate teachers, T.A.s, SENCOs etc. but no corresponding teams with ADHD expertise
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Post by JJ on Jul 2, 2013 23:37:19 GMT
I can't comment on this from experience...
But I was talking to a primary school teacher the other day who was explaining some of the implications of academy school status - which is what more and more schools are doing (including primary now) - and it's been set up so that eventually schools won't really have any choice other than to do it.
If your school is an academy then it can use its money to get whatever training or support it wants from whomever it wants. It used to be that it got it all from the LA directly and what they had on offer was their only choice. Academy schools are looking elsewhere for services because they can and because they now pay for individual services needed (rather than a block amount to the LA for access to everything) and so the LAs are cutting back on what they provide (because they're getting less money), which will force more schools to become academy schools so they can access the services they want.
So my point in saying all this is that if your child's school is an academy school, this would mean they could get specialist advice / training if they wanted to and the LA not providing it as a service shouldn't matter... Adiss or one of the other ones provides specialist training for schools so an academy school could buy in their services.
I'm about 60-70% sure I've recalled this correctly - I just thought that on the chance I had the right end of the stick and if your daughter's school was an academy, you might have an argument for them getting some proper training... Or at least a starting point to find out more....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2013 23:44:22 GMT
Have you read what I sent you?! I have challenged the senco at school to work with me to develop ADD targeted interventions. We should really see if we can get a Uni in on this, im trying at the mo, but they are so stuck on following their bloody generic strategies (dyslexia interventions).
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