Could do with some helpful advice from others who have had similar situation to us if possible...
Briefly...as dinner smells are wafting up the stairs...our recently adopted son, now 2.5 years old, with cleft lip and palate who has spent two years in an overseas orphanage is now doing really well although his speech is unintelligible (will need more surgery soon and subsequently speech therapy)and he is probably a little delayed, and could do with an extra amount of time at home regards attachment etc. We probably don't fully know his needs at this stage to be truthful. The real bummer is that his birthday is right at the end of August making him the youngest in the class on top of all that. Have been speaking to the likely primary and its pre-school to which he is due to go in September when he is just three and however many days. School is very understanding and have said that they will defer him to the following year. However, they also advise that without a Statement this cannot be "official" i.e. I presume it could be revoked if anything changed. And that at the secondary stage it is quite likely that we would come under pressure to jump him up a year.
I know that getting a Statement is a huge thing and initial thoughts from a few professionals are that he wouldn't get one...so I'm not sure that I have any options but to go with what the school has offered and fingers crossed for the future?
Any thoughts on on any of this would be much appreciated...
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Advice needed on deferring a place for adopted child with speech problems
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maindoors · 01/03/2013 20:23
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