Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Jeanne I have a preschooler who will be reclassified in a few months. My child has made significant progress regarding his Apraxia. It appears he may be declassified because of his high cognitive skills even though he still has speech and OT issues.(ie. unintelligable connected speech; poor pragmatic skills etc.) According to the NJ communication impaired classification my child needs to test in the 10th percentile to qualifiy. " Communication impaired " means a language disorder in the areas of morphology,syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics/discourse which adversely affects a student's educational performance and is not due primarily to an auditory impairment. The problem shall be demonstrated through functional assessment of language in other than a testing situation ''and'' performance below 1.5 standard deviations, or the 10th percentile on at least two standardized oral language tests, where such tests are appropriate. When the area of suspected disability is language, assessment by a certified speech-language specialist and assessment to establish the educational impact are required. The speech-language specialist shall be considered a child study team member. I understand there is an alternative category ESLS, (i.e. eligible for speech and language services only) but I'm not sure if that would allow my child to get OT therapy services or extended school year. I wonder if we can use a 504 plan to cover the accommodations, OT services and ESY. Any feedback from the group would be appreciated. Sincerely, N. Relax. virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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