[senco-forum] SPLD or ASD

kngbrndn at aol.com wrote:. But I'm still suspicious that the data gathered will pop up as an underestimation statistically of the depth and extent of SEN nationwide. Brendan King

I'm not sure that I agree with you there, Brendan.  Referring back to the question I asked earlier, about expected progress for struggling readers, the detailed answers I received (thank you, Philippa & Klaus) appeared to make the the assumption that the children I was asking about were all children with SEN.  They most definitely are not.  Only a small number of them have any underlying difficulty.  The majority have underachieved because they haven't been taught to read properly, not because they can't learn to read.  They are learning now and having no problem with it whatsoever.  But they are on our SEN 'register'  at SA by virtue of their poor level of literacy and will, I assume,  be reported on the PLASC.  Thus contributing to/inflating the statistics.  

It seems to me to be a strangely Catch 22 situation. If I weren't working with them they wouldn't be on the register and our register would be some 40 children 'lighter'.  But then, of course, we wouldn't get those all important 'points' for them when it comes to calculating our CVA.  Hmmm...

Maggie

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