Dyslexia Appeal
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:27 pm
This is my first posting on this site though I have found it very helpful over the past few weeks to view the advice and experiences of people in the same painful position as myself. We we going to appeal on Friday and are using our daughter's recently diagnosed dyslexia as the basis for our case. She achieved 114/118 in her 11+ test and we will be submitting an Ed Psych report which states categorically that she will have been disadvantaged by the time constraint and pressure of the 11+ test. We had her privately tested though with the school's support as they had recognised her literacy problems from year 2 but had more pressing SEN children to have tested. Because of her dyslexia she does not have very strong school reports (her own lack of confidence in her abilities has contributed to this) and is predicted to get 4a/4a and 5c in her SAT's though these were predicted before her diagnosis and she will now, hopefully get extra time. Importantly, she did get 126 in the VR test taken at school in November 2006 and 120 in 2005. Though for some reason she wasn't ranked with a 2:3 prediction. We notified County of her suspected Dyslexia in the Summer and were offered the opportunity to hold up the test dates until they had received the Ed Psych report. We discussed this with the school and read the Bucks Disability Discrimination information regarding 11+ and made the decision that there was little point in making her wait as the chances of her getting extra time for mild dyslexia was extremely unlikely. The headmaster told us that he had never known of extra time being given in these cases.
The school are giving us their full support.
If anyone has had a similar experience of this situation or advice to give us it would be very much appreciated. We will also share our experience of our Appeal on Friday.
The school are giving us their full support.
If anyone has had a similar experience of this situation or advice to give us it would be very much appreciated. We will also share our experience of our Appeal on Friday.