Trying to move son from inclusion to life skills in 1st grade

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My son is in 1st grade and has DS and apraxia. The school is trying

to move my son from inclusion to life skills because they want to

increase his time in sped. He is making progress on his goals and

objectives. He is learning sign and is very social. He does have

weak fine motor skills. This will be the 5th school in 6 years that

the district has moved my son too.

Right now he is in his neighborhood school. The school gave us NO

input on sped minutes and reg. edu. minutes. We have fought 5 years

just to get the district to use sign language with him, now they are

going to move him away from his speech therapist who knows sign.

The school says they cannot modify the Texas Essential Knowledege

Skills at the first grade level so that he can be included. They

said if an inclusion teacher is in their then they have to label it

sped minutes.

Of course we disagreed and now we meet again in 10 days. I need

articles and court cases that back up my position. My son is

nonverbal and we don't want him taking an IQ test, but the school

says they cannot do any formal evaluations without an IQ test.

Thanks for any help.

Lori