[SENco-forum] 4th percentile / One stop centres

One stop centres are a lovely idea in theory-

No more trekking from mental health (ASD) to EP to OT etc when they are at
opposite ends of the county.

They have such Child Assessment Centres  in HK and once referred to one
professional they can pass you to another easily.  If there is a diagnosis
( predominately medical) they arrange support such as Physio etc.

The problem is not that they don't have EP's, optometrists and audiologists,
but that they do not have much experience with 'dyslexia' or SLD as they
have now labelled it.  So the EP report is test data functional with no
recommendations for support and the other two will state that ears & eye (
from a physiological point of view) work perfectly!

Dolfrogs desire to have causal determination cannot happen if the
professional has not experienced APD or visual tracking, focussing or Irlen
issues.  While my high street optometrist is both interested in SEN and
experienced so as to pick up hearing problems, & gives eye exercises, few
can.  Currently APD has to be referred by an audiologist to Great Ormond
Street ( reminiscent of the old way of treating visual dyslexia via St
Bart's in the 1970's)  and then what?.........I am only interested in how to
support APD.  Again this seems to fall back to individual strategies for
each person.

So - knowing that the problems are ear and/or eye related only helps to
narrow down the likely strategies needed to support learning.  The key is
how to help each individual in the way that best helps them and from an LEA
point of view this has to be done as cheaply as possible so starting the
process with L3,000 of medical specialists is not the way to go.

One stop centres - great - but who would pay?  Even with the clearest report
of cause and recommendations, money, or lack of it, will still stop a child
getting what they need.

Sharon

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In a message dated 27/04/2007 04:16:40 GMT Daylight Time,
dolfrog at tiscali.co.uk writes:

And it  is probably a good thing that there is less funding for new
Educational  Psychologists, may be the money would be better spent on One
Stop  Assessment Centres staffed by multi-disciplined professionals who  can
provide a realistic and more complete  diagnosis.

Please see my previous postings. As your message was sent at 4.16 I'll give
you the benefit of my doubt.

Martin

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