Re: ADVISE NEEDED - HELP!!

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One thing that I did to make sure Patty got to keep her itinerant hearing

services when her loss was only mild and she was considered " borderline " was to

document how many days she spent unaided -- colds, allergies, ear infections,

malfunctions. Then I insisted at the IEP that they write the IEP for a child

with the unaided loss, not a child with the aided loss.

You can try guessing for last year, but going forward the way I did it was put

an X on a year-long calendar through any day where Patty didn't wear her aids to

school, then took the calendar with me to the IEP. This was one of Kay's first

suggestions to me, so give credit where credit is due!

Our district's requirements for itinerant services are that the loss has to be

" educationally significant " , but it is based on some California statute and may

be different in your state.

Did you sign the IEP? If you are disputing it, isn't there some status quo

provision? Sorry I'm being so vague, the only IEP I ever disputed was the first

one so there wasn't an existing IEP to keep in place.

Sheri