[senco-forum] would this wording put you off?

Hi Sheridan,

I found your message very interesting... have had similar situation with
parents and it has not been easy to manage.  Please keep posting on this one
- any ideas that have worked are welcome!

Our approach was to keep trying to bring the parents on board, staying
within what they found acceptable as best we could and to document all
contact with them so that we had a record if they ever did decide to come
into school to make a formal complaint about our lack of care of their
child's education.  After two or three years of this, the father agreed to
come and meet me, reluctantly allowed us to enrol the boy in our dyslexia
unit and subsequently agreed to a shadow working with him and attending our
dyslexia lessons so the shadow can support in class and provide overlearning
experiences of the dyslexia work.  We are battling at the moment with the
mother's desire for her son to do the same work as the rest of the class
when he is illiterate and innumerate.  We have not been allowed to assess
the boy for dyslexia at all but it is obvious that he is clever and cannot
manipulate symbols etc. without specific instruction.  He is learning now
though and the parents are warming slowly to our input.  (eg no longer icily
rejecting of any contact with the school, as they were previously).

Philippa