IEP HELP PLEASE!!!!!

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Hi: HELP PLEASE!!!!!

I'm trying to prepare for our 9 yr old daughter's IEP update on May 14th.

She is in 3rd grade doing better than average in math and super speller but

problems with reading and writing. She was diagnosed apraxic at age 4 and

has been receiving speech and language therapy since she was 20 months old.

The school provides 3x wk 20 minutes and we have 1 hr private therapy 2x a

month. Articulation is good. As I mentioned above, her problems are now

mostly associated with reading and writing. Can you give me any information

or a website maybe that would explain to these " educators " in our IEP team

why reading and writing difficulties are associated with apraxia? They

pushed for us to have her evaluated last summer for AD/HD (saying she was

off task and dreamy during class time -- specially during reading and

writing assignments). We agreed to the evaluation and she was diagnosed

borderline Ad/Hd -- more attention that hyperactivity. The PhD who did the

eval was not truly convinced but he concluded that she was positive for

AD/HD and in my opinion it was because he knew little about apraxia and more

than likely most of his evals on kids turn out positive in any event.

Anyway, with consult with our doctor, we agreed to put our daughter on an

AD/HD med but not tell the other members of the IEP team. Now 6 months later

she has not improved with regard to her reading/writing grades. Now we have

something now concrete to put before the team next week. Anyway, I'm looking

for an article or something on point to supply them that will educate them

and persuade them to assign my daughter an aid during reading and writing

class time. Thank so much for your help!