Re: update on school meeting

[Guest guest]

Hang in there Kris. It is very common for the schools to want to do their

own testing. Our kids have to meet the EDUCATIONAL criteria for autism, not

the medical. So, you can have a medically diagnosed autistic child and not

have an educationally diagnosed autistic child, which means that the schools

don't have to provide the services if they say he doesn't need them. Guess

how I have learned this???

Sue

This doesn't mean that you will have this kind of problem, though.

[Guest guest]

I am not going to get into how I so disagree with how the schools do things

related to sped...especially in this state

Georga

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Re: update on school meeting

Hang in there Kris. It is very common for the schools to want to do their

own testing. Our kids have to meet the EDUCATIONAL criteria for autism, not

the medical. So, you can have a medically diagnosed autistic child and not

have an educationally diagnosed autistic child, which means that the schools

don't have to provide the services if they say he doesn't need them. Guess

how I have learned this???

Sue

This doesn't mean that you will have this kind of problem, though.

[Guest guest]

>>>>>>>The want to do their own assessments even though I turned in

all of the evals I got from a team of experts and the 0-3 program

where he was getting everything till I decided to put him into early

headstart. <<<<<<<

Mark had to have all the evals through the school also. But they did

ask for all the Birth to 3 evals to look at. I'm not sure why they

do this but I had the same thing. Maybe it gives them a chance to

get to know Zach? Or maybe they hope to catch something the other

evals didn't catch. Are they at least willing to look at the other

evals?

I sure hope you are able to get him started soon and that the school

is willing to help him and listen you what you have to say! Good

luck.

Tina W.

[Guest guest]

> >>>>>>>The want to do their own assessments even though I turned in

> all of the evals I got from a team of experts and the 0-3 program

> where he was getting everything till I decided to put him into

early

> headstart. <<<<<<<

>

They could be doing re-assessments for 2 reasons :

1. to get his current lvl's

2. They can't service him more then on a temporary basis with 0-3

evals.**They DO however have to service him while you are waiting for

them to complete their own evals.**

0-3 evals are not always an accurate view of the childs abilities

needed in a school enivroment. Our children can change a great deal

in just a few months. The more current the eval the more accurate

services for your child will be.

Be patient 3 tests may not seem to have to take long because you

don't see the caseloads these people have. A SLP in our school has a

caseload of 35 children to service with anywhere between 30-120 min

of therapy a week, when you throw an eval into the mix you can

imagine the delays. That's just the SLP. Now factor in the 4 other

eduactors involved schedules into the mix. No ones child should have

to miss their already exsisting therapies due to evals. Hang in

there, it will get better.

Amy mom to

Noah 6 Lucas 8 ASD's

[Guest guest]

Kris,

There is also the hope that wherever you are, the schools might not be the

idiots mine is about the medical dx either. We can always hope, right?

Sue

[Guest guest]

Yes, I have heard the Hawaii has had their share of problems abiding by

special education law.

FWIW, Federal Law supercedes any state's specific law, and I would assume

that Hawaii still falls under that jurisdiction.

Penny

[Guest guest]

Kris,

Good for you!!! That is an unbelievably long time for an assessment. But

there are reasons they do this. My theory: If a child can't do something,

they try to teach him before the assessment period is over.

I call that a win-win. So have at it.

I let our school system assess Boone and they were pretty shocked that I

did. The thing is, no matter how long they assess him, he's always going to

be very autistic. But you're absolutely right. 60 days is ridiculous and

probably a delay tactic for speech and OT services.

Sissi

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