IEP update

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Good and bad. Everything was not settled and we will need yet ANOTHER IEP

to reach an agreement on LRE (least restrictive environment - ie what

school he should be at. If the schools cannot provide a public LRE they

have to pay tuition at a private school. In Sept they agreed to do this,

but never complied.)

We will be reimbursed for out of pocket expenses for his private speech

therapies and he will still get compensatory until the 5 months of neglect

of speech therapies is completely made up. His speech should start in 11

days as outreach to the private preschool he is attending.

A decision could not be made on whether it was LRE and who was responsible

for tuition.

Also in question now is his autism diagnosis which we never agreed to in

the first place, but it was made by a reputable university team that the

schools told us 18 months ago they could not dispute. They also at that

time and again last May threatened no services at all unless we classified

him that way (this was prior to his dyspraxia diagnosis.) Now that their

new autism specialist has observed him she doesn't believe he is ANYWHERE

on the spectrum because he is very social and has fabulous imaginary play

(hmm, I've been saying this all along) and they are using that to try to

change his placement and not have to make up the 54 hours of autism support

that was on his Sept IEP amendment. I had to consent to an evaluation by

the school's psychiatrist which is going to be SO lovely as he's going

through a really difficult time right now. I had gotten on the waiting

list of the one place in the state that is most qualified to diagnose

autism, and the only place the schools 18 months ago said they would accept

an opinion from. Our turn on the waiting list is due to come up sometime

in the spring of 2007.

So in the upcoming weeks we'll be gearing up for our SIXTH IEP with no

services provided so far. This is nuts!

Miche

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We have an attorney so advocacy won't help now. I can tell you the

meetings go MUCH better for us since we've retained and brought our

attorney. This time the school's was there too which is probably why they

offered some consessions. She pulled them out of the room to meet and they

came back in with a niver tone and started offering us some things like

repayment for the speech.

Miche

At 07:32 AM 1/26/2006, you wrote:

>Is there not an advocacy group that could go with you to this

>meeting? Our local ARC does this. It is ALWAYS helpful because they have

>the resources to MAKE the district do the things legally necessary to help

>your child.

>

> Sherry

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In a message dated 1/26/2006 8:54:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

miche@... writes:

Hi Miche, I was just wondering what " autism support " you were suppose to get

in the school system??? At least you have won some of the battle -

congratulations on that. Phyllis

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good! Just keep at it! you'll get what you need eventually. Unfortunatly with

some districts $$ is more important than the kids!

Sherry

Grassia <miche@...> wrote:

We have an attorney so advocacy won't help now. I can tell you the

meetings go MUCH better for us since we've retained and brought our

attorney. This time the school's was there too which is probably why they

offered some consessions. She pulled them out of the room to meet and they

came back in with a niver tone and started offering us some things like

repayment for the speech.

Miche

At 07:32 AM 1/26/2006, you wrote:

>Is there not an advocacy group that could go with you to this

>meeting? Our local ARC does this. It is ALWAYS helpful because they have

>the resources to MAKE the district do the things legally necessary to help

>your child.

>

> Sherry

[Guest guest]

That is so awesome.... just how it should be. I hope the transition

goes smoothly!

, mom to (14), (12 DS) and Sammy (11)

On 9/21/2010 3:28 PM, and FRANK wrote:

>

> We had our IEP today. All went smoothly. We took subway sandwiches.

> The only person from the " other " school was his sped teacher and she

> had a lot to add to things so I requested that she be there. Most of

> the people at this school don't really KNOW him, just what they read

> through the IEP. We had a draft of the IEP which we had added to and

> taken out but much of the stuff was not applicable since he will be

> attending his home school and fully included. He will get a total of 1

> hour/day pull out. One time will be with a math group and one time

> will be with a reading group.

> It was such a pleasant two hours! LOL. We will meet again with the

> sped teacher in a month when Logan has moved to the new school and is

> a part of the new class and we will need to tweak some of the goals,

> but it was good.

> No stress. No mess. Just a lot of possitive.. this is what we'll be doing.

>

>

>

>

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YIPPEEE!! Way to go...hope things continue to go positively~

Loree

IEP update

  We had our IEP today. All went smoothly. We took subway sandwiches.

The only person from the " other " school was his sped teacher and she had a lot

to add to things so I requested that she be there. Most of the people at this

school don't really KNOW him, just what they read through the IEP. We had a

draft of the IEP which we had added to and taken out but much of the stuff was

not applicable since he will be attending his home school and fully included. He

will get a total of 1 hour/day pull out. One time will be with a math group and

one time will be with a reading group.

It was such a pleasant two hours! LOL. We will meet again with the sped teacher

in a month when Logan has moved to the new school and is a part of the new class

and we will need to tweak some of the goals, but it was good.

No stress. No mess. Just a lot of possitive.. this is what we'll be doing.