Tracy - Interview 13  

Tracy - Interview 13

Age at Interview: 40
Sex: Female
Background: Tracy, a school assistant, and her husband have one daughter aged 19. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Tracy’s daughter, Nicola, was diagnosed with autism when she was six years old. Nicola is currently at a college for further education and will start working at the local hospital radio station when she finishes her course.

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Tracy explains the statementing process.

 



Statement process is for schools and the local authority that govern the schools to decide what the individual child may need and it is a rigorous process of assessments and doctors and specialists and professionals and it can go on and on and on for years. And I do believe, because again in Nicola’s case it was 15, 16 years ago and I do believe now, I don’t want to scare anybody, that that process has been condensed and it is a lot simpler and a lot…. It still takes time, but it is not as time consuming and they do get the help quicker because they have got a better process of doing it. And basically all the independent agencies that you might have, like a speech therapist, and a behavioural specialist and like in Nicola’s case a  doctor and they all do their own individual assessments and then through the local authority it is all pulled together and then they decide, they make one big report and they decide what the help they think that the individual child would need and the provision that they can provide and also the statement gives them the authority to either obtain the money and spend the money. Without a statement the child cannot bring the money into the local authority. I think that is a way of explaining it.

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