SOLUTION FOR THE IEP IS THIS LEEGAL

[Guest guest]

HELLO LISA,

Now I found a solution with the school, but I need your opinion, they said they

can gave my daughter now, 3 hours DIS, private center, and no school, and bus,

as I have to search for the school.

So what about your opinion, Is this LEGALL< AS THEY CAN GAVE HER SPEECH SERVICES

ONLY WITHOUT SCHOOL ACOMADTIONS, I need your advise

[Guest guest]

Hi Caroline,

What I want you to do is put what they are offering to your child in writing.

For example:

Dear Mrs. ___,

Thank you very much for taking the time to speak to me today regarding my

daughter _____.

I'm a bit confused and am requesting in writing for you to clarify what you

shared with me verbally so that I may share this with a few professionals who

work with my daughter privately as well as others who are assisting me in

advocating for my daughter ___.

It's my understanding that your district will offer 3 hours direct individual

speech therapy through out of district placement. It is also my understanding

that you want her schooled in out of district placement. In addition it is my

understanding that you are leaving it to my discretion to search for and find

appropriate out of district placement for my daughter ___. It is also my

understanding that once I find an appropriate out of district placement for my

daughter you will no longer provide her with transportation and I will have to

provide transpiration. I am happy that you trust my judgment to find

appropriate placement for my daughter but wonder why she will no longer be

qualified for transportation. Unless I misunderstood can you please explain why

she will no longer be entitled to transportation?

Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you in

the next day or so on this matter.

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You want to send this certified mail return receipt requested.

I didn't know what you meant by DIS -but you should be specific as to what that

means. If you meant direct individual services for DIS specify what type of

services. I'm not sure but from what you wrote perhaps it's a good thing. Of

course perhaps the way I interpreted your message was wrong -but notice I'm

interpreting that they are not only allowing your daughter to be schooled in out

of district placement to receive 3 hours a week of individual speech therapy but

that you get to choose the placement. If that was the case all you would need

to advocate for would be the transportation!

If my interpretation was wrong they will have to answer you in writing and

explain exactly what they meant...and that's what you want anyway because they

won't put information in writing that is against your daughter's Federal rights

to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive

Environment (LRE)

I can try to reach Cheryl -our awesome VP award winning teacher/SLP advocate

regarding this but know that Mondays are the best night for me to speak with

her.

Also did you share this with Jill from the California group to help you on this

too?

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