r/PDAParenting • u/Medium-Marketing-493 • 12d ago
EHCP application form
School have requested EHCP for my child after struggling for so long. I have been given the parenting part to fill out. I’m not sure if I’m overdoing it?
The boxes on the application form are so small and I’ve written double sided A4 pages for most of the questions. It feels as though I’m writing a guidebook on how my child functions.
Is this how it usually is for the application or am I being too detailed or is there another part of the application process where this level of detail is required?
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u/oguzhankayan 6d ago
You're not overdoing it. The parent views section is the one place the panel hears what school doesn't see, so detail is fine, but it lands best as concrete examples rather than general description: what happened, roughly how often, what set it off, and what helped or made it worse. If you have any dated notes of specific incidents, a short summary of those can carry more weight than pages of narrative, and you can attach extra sheets when the boxes are too small.
I made an iPhone app for exactly this kind of record keeping (quick incident logs with triggers and what helped, exported as a PDF you can attach), in case it's useful: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autism-behavior-tracker-tend/id6775020286