Re: FW: Extended School Year Services

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Dear ,

I have provisions for an extended school year written in on 's IEP to

begin with. Do you have the same and are wondering how we go about defining

or altering the plans for those services? This is easier because your

district is already expecting to spend the money. Or are you looking to have

ESY written in on a current or new IEP? That's a bit more difficult, but the

process is the same.

With , we initially wrote in two summer programs that I had used before

with great success and so we had some plans in place for this summer.

Unfortunately, or actually, fortunately, made a good deal more

progress in the area of pragmatic language use than we expected and her mood

swings responded beautifully to a slight increase in her dosage of Prozac.

This nice development led her speech pathologist to believe that the summer

camp at the Speech & Language center, although it has always been successful

in improving her social skills, might be inappropriate because the group

they were expecting had language skills which were much lower than hers.

This necessitated a modification to her current IEP, which renews in

September.

With great difficulty, I managed to hoot and holler loudly enough to convene

a " mid-year progress meeting " with my CST. My private providers and 's

Montessori teacher bent over backwards to attend. Prior to the meeting, I

" coached " each of them on their respective roles. We had to be careful not

to make look too good or the district might try to deny her the

service. On the other hand, we were requesting an IEP modification which was

indicated by virtue of her good progress in a particular area. I imagine I'm

not the only parent who feels like a method actor at IEP meetings. The

district agreed to our proposal, but of course dragged their heels once the

meeting was over, so now I'm the one making all the arrangements and acting

as the go-between. I'm sure I'm in good company here too.

Whether or not you have ESY written in on your IEP, the procedure we use is

pretty much the same. You need to get a meeting together and then portray

your child exactly the way you need him or her to look in order to get the

district to conclude that " something must be done. " I'm very lucky to have a

great relationship with my Child Study Team and they are always receptive to

my suggestions. If you have the same, then you probably won't have too much

trouble getting the services you want. You just have to get your IEP or IFSP

modified in enough time for the administrative hassles (contracts, purchase

orders, etc.) to be done before Christmas.

I'm not familiar enough with the list members to know anything specific

about their children, so I don't really know if this information is helpful

to you or not. I decided to send it anyway though since we just went through

a change in summer services for and I thought it might be useful to

you.

Janette

Extended School Year Services

Does anyone have a specific format they use when requesting summer services

for their child? Just wondering what everyone does... I'd like to ask my

district for a summer tutor a few days a week, an hour each day. Thanks.

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[Guest guest]

,

I will be dealing with the same battle this year.

No services for the whole moth of August? Hello? Are you crazy?! (this is

what I want to scream at the end of the year IEP's)

Last summer, the program supervisor (who was originally the head tutor for

our home program) had to assert that my daughter would regress terribly

without any structure or socialization during the summer.

Is your child eligible for public summer school? I thought all children

were. We're going to be doing that but that still leaves several weeks on

either end of that with nothing.

Good luck,

in CA

Extended School Year Services

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> Does anyone have a specific format they use when requesting summer

services

> for their child? Just wondering what everyone does... I'd like to ask my

> district for a summer tutor a few days a week, an hour each day. Thanks.

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Thanks Janette!

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