Starting the EHCP Process

It's less than a year until Adam starts school. That's scary!
His Preschool Specialist has started collecting information off his therapists so that we can apply for an EHCP (Education Health and Care Plan) to get Adam's additional needs met when he starts school.
We looked round a Special Needs school recently and I have an appointment later this week to look at a mainstream school. There is a lot of pressure on us to send him to Special Needs school but neither of us were excited by what we saw.. We will have to wait until I've seen the other school this week and maybe we might have to look at a few more.
One thing I'm very aware of is that Adam is receiving a lot less therapy than children in other countries. I follow many pages on Facebook and am a member of several Special Needs groups. One of the pages I follow is about a little boy called Michael who lives in Australia. He is almost the same age as Adam with almost identical diagnoses of Autism and Global Development Delay. He has eight hours a day with an ABA therapist!
That's a lot of therapy for a three year old. Adam probably sees Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy for no more than a few hours a month. We have to do the rest of the work with him ourselves.
I am starting a more structured routine this week with his therapy. I want to mirror the same routine he has with his therapists and have set times for sessions. Adam always works well in the morning, we arrange his sessions for 9.30 where possible. I've learned a lot from watching his therapists and I have been watching videos on YouTube, especially by an amazing therapist called Phoebe Caldwell. I also picked up some of her books in the library on Saturday. She does incredible work with children using Intensive Interaction, I plan on using this therapy a lot with Adam. There are some amazing results online.
It's going to be a busy year.