Our district is trying to use my son's speech eval against him

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Hey everyone,

Sorry to cross post, but didn't want to over look any helpful advice.

Many of you have been helping me on this long drawn out matter with my school

district, and I greatly appreciate it. They are still insisting that we have

the psych. evals BEFORE they will even write goals and do placement for fall,

which is in two weeks, for my son. He should just go on to first grade, but

they are trying to use the evals to say that he should be put in a segregated

classroom. They are totally disregarding the whole LRE thing. We did allow

them to do a speech eval, because it had been a long time and we do like his

speech therapist from the district. OF COURSE, the results showed huge gaps and

delays. He is about to turn 8, but was totally nonverbal until 3. He has made

tremendous gains, but is not age appropriate. But, that, to us, was to be

expected. AND, as usual, he did not " perform " up to par on the testing. I was

present for all of it and it makes me want to wringe his little neck. Anyway,

since we are not agreeing to the psych. testing readily (this argument is not

over with them in any way), they are now trying to use the scores on the speech

eval to say that he will not be able to function in first grade, .......

Are there any speech therapists out there or anyone else who can give us some

strategical advice on how to verbally rebut what they are saying??? Our son

does not get private speech at the moment, so we do not have a second opinion.

Thanks,

Trina