[senco-forum] Severe Learning Difficulties

Has anyone any experience of working with a Year 7 student who is working

When working at primary level with children who were still achieving P
levels, even in Y6, the advice from our LA SEN advisory teachers was to
set no more than two targets, using the next P level we wished the child
to achieve.  In practice, this usually meant one for number and one for
reading, as these were usually the most pressing needs.

For a statemented child who is autistic, dyspraxic, has 2 hearing aids and
language and communication difficulties (!), although the statement
details all the needs to address, the IEPs still have just two targets. 
Because of the full-time LSA support and input from the autistic outreach
service of a local special school, as well as external agencies such as
SALT, OT and physio, the targets are often met in a fairly short time, so
they are just ticked as achieved and new ones written in by hand, rather
than doing a new IEP.

I appreciate things are different in secondary, but both primary and
secondary in our LA have been discouraged from setting more than two
targets in any one IEP for a few years now.  ESTYN [Wales' equivalent of
OFSTED] seems to be quite happy with this.

Hope this is of some help

Jean

S Wales

 Hi
> Has anyone any experience of working with a Year 7 student who is working
> at
> or below Reception level? (P5-7) with severe communication difficulties. I
> am trying to develop a workable IEP for this pupil around the early
> primary
> strategies. I have no experience of this stage so it is hard work.  Do you
> think it's acceptable to devise the IEP around the 5 Early Learning Goals?
> Has anyone got any tips or advice? The advice from the LA is lacking to
> say
> the least - I might as well just get on with it.
> He is working outside the classroom with some inclusion where appropriate
> -
> PE, Music, Art, RE, Geography, History where the teachers are very
> inclusive
> and, with the help of an experienced TA, some basic but meaningful work is
> going on. Literacy and Numeracy, Language Development etc is being covered
> by a Senior TA with primary experience or myself in the SEN room. We are
> doing OK but it is VERY time consuming and sometimes we feel in the dark!
> Hope you can help!
> Thank you
> Mary
> PS the LEA are funding a Statement with 20 hours of unqualiified support
> (about £5000 per annum)
> and refuse to increase it.
>
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