Learning differences – SEND
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Dear All I am a teacher in a special school and have a foundation class with children with a wide range of special needs - pmld, autistic, sld etc etc. At present I have been asked to look at "baseline" systems of profiling/recording to track pupils progress. I was just wondering if anyone had any systems in place which work well with such complex needs children????? Many thanks in anticipation of your help. P.S would be more than willing to share ideas, knowledge etc with anyone in a similiar situation Ta
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A Child With Severe Language Delay
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This is a very similar topic to Weightman's but I didn't want to hijack her thread. I have six children coming in next year with some kind of language difficulties. This has made me take a big gulp because I don't really know what I'm doing. However, my real worry is a boy who has no language at all apart from an 'AAAAH' sound. Apparently his ability to actually process language is only at about the level of a child of 18 months. He won't come in with a statement because he wasn't referred soon enough so the earliest he'll get one is in about March. Mum is in denial and won't let him be sent to a Speech and Language unit nor will she let him be referred to a Paediat…
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Selective Mutism
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Hi All, was just after a little bit of advice really. We have a male child (3.4 years) in our setting who returned to pre-school after the easter holidays for the first week (4 days) and then he was away until this week, returning as usual on Monday morning. We have kept up a good stream of communication with Mum, who informed us the reason for the child's absence was because they had to return to Ireland (where the family are originally from) to care for a sick relative (child's nan, mum's side). When I have spoken to Mum, I have always asked after both her mum and her son, because we have missed him at pre-school (one of the livewires! ). Other children were mi…
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Iep For Autistic Child
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Hi I have to write an IEP for a child who has only been with us for a week and has autism. His needs are such that he requires one to one support whilst with us and in order to provide this i have applied for the childcare inclusion fund, as he is not yet three. He currently attends our local child development centre where he receives specialist help from a range of specialists. We have all met and discussed his needs and i have been given assesment forms about him. My problem is that i feel a little bit out of my depth. I have written, without problem many IEP's for children with additional needs but this child's needs are quite serious. He really has no …
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Doing The Best We Can?
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Just wanted to run this by someone. We have a child, under 3, with a developmental level probably at about the 18 month stage. Physically big for his age, I would say. Only speech sound is 'g' & all sounds are made at the back of the throat. He's been referred to SALT but it's taking ages.Family issues include low literacy levels & alleged domestic violence [on both sides]. He's on his first IEP & the Area SENCO is involved. We feel he really needs 1:1 as he's exhausting his key worker. There's no funding for that until he's had his second IEP evaluated, as I understand it. Parents have given consent for involvement, yet there's a feeling from the SE…
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Effective Transitions
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Hi, everyone, I've just got home after going on a course called 'effective transitions'. It was about the transition from pre-school to school. It was really good and I have come home all fired up and want to get started immediately but I've got to wait til tomorrow. Our reception teacher came too and although we already have a good link we have got loads of new ideas. The course is in three parts and we have had to say what we hope to have achieved by the time we meet again in June. Then the next meeting is in September which will be where we discuss what we have learnt and hopefully will be able to produce a booklet which all settings can access. It is not often tha…
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Split Placements
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Hi Does anyone have any experience of split school placements for SN children? We have a child who is currently attending mainstream school full time but is possibly going to be going to a SN school two afternoons a week to access some sensory equipment with me (TA). Does anyone have any children who do this and if so how have you organised transport etc? and have you come across any potential problems with this arrangement. Thanks in advance for any replies Jo
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For those of you working in foundation SEN classes how do you carry out observations? Do you have anything in particular that works? I work with MLD,SLD,PMLD and ASD all in 1 group 8:2 and we really struggle to get anything done let alone observations as I am sure you will apppreciate working with SEN. We have been discussing how we can get a system in place that is manageable and valuable. Do you have any ideas or formats that work for you that you are willing to share
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We have a little boy just started in Nursery who has severe epilepsy. He is on medication to control his fits, but is still having several "absences". Yesterday myself and my two Nursery Nurses were given the training on what to do if he has a serious fit during Nursery. (he only started with us 2 weeks ago and his mum has been staying with him until our training could be arrranged). We were all shown how to administer rectal valium which is what we would need to do if he is fitting for more than 5 minutes. The whole thing really scares me, and although I now have my "certificate" to say that I am competent to administer it, I am not sure what will happen when and if …
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Status Of Senco
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This week I suddently realised that early years SENCos do not seem to carry the same status as school SENCos, yet they ae doing the same job. In school a SENCO normally has some time allocated for the work, will receive additional payment in recognition of the demands of the role, and is sometimes on the management team. But in pre-school the work is often done without pay in the practitioners own time. And sometimes the setting owner or manager doesn't seem to realise that it is important to have an experienced skilled person in the role. Being a SENCo is a really important and demanding role. easily equivalent to being a deputy, so what can we do to improve the status…
