Thursday, 3 May 2007

Frodo's Latest Assessment

We finally got the report from the Paediatrician for Frodo's latest assessment, which took place last month.

Decision's were made in the meeting which we agreed with, and should help get Frodo into the school that can help his language difficulty most.

Unfortunately the Dickhead Paediatrician chaired the meeting. He hasn't seen Frodo himself for three years, fobbing this off to another doctor when he forgot to arrange an assessment.

Now he muscles in making assumptions, inaccuracies, and trying to suggest drugs that aren't suitable for Frodo's condition. He has put his own spin on the report to suggest that Frodo has the problem that his favourite drug company can address. He refers to reports from two or three years ago, rather than the recent findings. Worst of all he writes a different conclusion to that which was agreed between himself, the Educational Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapy.

The report is full of spelling and grammar mistakes, contradictions, inaccuracies and other holes. It looks like he was probably chased for it, since it was overdue, and has completed it as a rush job.

We blasted a letter off detailing what was wrong with the report earlier in the week, copying the Headmistress of the school that provided Frodo with a one to one teaching asssistant last year. We think that she has set off a few rockets, so it looks like this one is on the way to being sorted out.

Novelist Supermum is ranting about this too.

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