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Head of Learning Support,therapist and Student Welfare.

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EW GURU
Latest post on 28 January 2012 - 20:36

They go my many names, but that is not the point, my question is if a school has a " support for learning" department headed by a clinical psychologist and one has a child as I do (11 years old boy) with CAPD armed with a full cognitive assessment file as thick as the shopping mall directories of Dubai (I handed that file plus other information at the beginning of the academic year as per their request) what would your expectations be from department, VP, the head of year, the teachers involved and most importantly the child?
I'm very interested to know your thoughts even if just hypothetical.
PS I think my question is a tad discombobulated, but then so am I at this point so my apologies. :\:

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 31 January 2012 - 01:41
Glad to be of help, hope your son gets the help he needs (and deserves!).
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EW GURU
Latest post on 31 January 2012 - 00:54
Thank you ladies for your phone calls and emails, your support means the world to me.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 31 January 2012 - 00:52
Your reply was just what I needed, thank you so much. When I handed over all of my sons reports to the school's head of learning support at the beginning of the year was what I hoped to be the first step to getting him what you described in your first paragraph, never did I imagine she would be so careless, irrisponsable and unprofessional in her approach...... Let me put it this way it's end of Jan and his teachers aren't even aware that he has CAPD!!!!!! Thanks again
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 30 January 2012 - 00:15
Hi, I'm a primary school teacher in the UK about to re-locate to Dubai. Don't know if this is any help but if a pupil in my class was assessed and diagnosed with anything that needed additional support within school we (SENCo (special educational needs co-ordinator) and class teacher) would read the full report and write an Individual Education Plan (IEP) connected to the recommendations made by the person initially assessing the child. We would then discuss these targets with the parents and the child and then finally inform all other adults who worked with the child so everyone knew how to help the child within the school enviroment. These targets would be reviewed each term and a new IEP written until it was felt by the professional/parents/teachers that the child no longer needed additional support. At the end of the school year we would meet with the child's new teacher to hand over the child's paperwork so the new class teacher would start the year fullly aware of the child's needs. All that being said, this does not happen in all schools in the UK. I still have to fight my corner over here to get my son's teachers to listen to an educational psychologist's advice about how to support my son (dyspraxic) and this has been going on since he was seven (he's now twelve!). I now ask to meet with his new teachers every September and ask when we'll meet to discuss his targets and then also regularly ask how he's getting on. I make sure they don't get a chance to forget he needs help and that it's the school's responsibility to provide it. There must be a dartboard with my picture in the staffroom but I look at it this way; my responsibility is to my child not the teacher. Keep on at them I say!
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EW GURU
Latest post on 29 January 2012 - 23:32
PS Who moved my thread, give me a break.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 29 January 2012 - 23:30
I should ask about waxing, threading and housemaids. I have already spoken to Plum can't help with CAPD, maybe JPS moms will see this, can you belive some of his teachers still don't know, they are not implementing any of the protocols/guidelines and all I get is "maybe you should move him", it's end of Jan and right back to where I was in June heck forget June how about four years ago. :\:
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 29 January 2012 - 23:04
Put a post on and ask about JPS mums. They have the best learning support department in dubai. I am sure their must be a few mums on here who can have children at the school. Also plum2 should able to help.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 29 January 2012 - 21:38
Thank you Sandfly, some new helpful info. Let's hope the moms in the UK don't have to deal with the level unprofessional C*** that's been thrown my way. I'd like to hear from other moms dealing with learning support department and their experiences. Thanks
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EW GURU
Latest post on 28 January 2012 - 20:47
Don't know, sorry, but wanted to suggest talking to parents elsewhere to find out what sort of support is offered - eg, UK centric site - http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/special_needs or http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/special_educational_needs - possibly a wider range of parental experience than you would get here.
 
 

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