Re: IEP/School Isuues

[Guest guest]

When my dyspraxic/DSI child was entering the preschool disabled

program they pushed us off on evaluating him for PT/OT even though he

was receiving 2 hrs of each a week through EI. They pushed his eval

off to 2 weeks before he was supposed to start and the IEP meeting

was 1 week before he was supposed to start. At the evals, I finally

realized they had no intention of giving him private OT/PT despite EI

reports that he needed it and I hired a child advocate to go to the

IEP mtg with me. Overnight things changed. We went in prepared to

battle them and all of a sudden their tune changed and they took my

EI reports and gave my son the services he needed. I guess what I'm

saying is stop being so accomodating with them. Push to get the evals

done, call them every day or every week to check on the progress, and

if you can afford it or if necessary get an advocate on your side.

Usually the school will try to avoid mediation at all costs. Don't be

afraid to fight for what you need for your child. Good luck.

>

> Hi,

>

> Looking for suggestions and just needed to vent. I have a 5yr old

> daughter (apraxia, PDDnos, Sesnory, fine motor delays). She's

> currently in the PSD class. September is Kindergarten (plan in for

> general ed class because she's improved alot). Anyway we had our

> annual IEP meeting in March as ususal. We agreed to reavaluation.

> School said that would be done within 60 days. This morning I saw

> our case manager and reminded her there is only 3 weeks left of the

> school year and I want ot review copies of the evaluations and have

> a meeting regarding services and placement for September. She said

> only her eval was complete (learning/education eval), but the

speech

> and psycological were not done yet. She sees the speech therapist

> 3x a week, so I don't know why it's taking that long. Plus I see

> the speech therapist almost every morning and she never mentioned

> any problems with getting the eval done. My case manager mentioned

> that there are people on staff during the summer, so we could meet

> then.

>

> But here are my issues with that: These child study team members

> are not the usual ones I usually meet with. I've always been

> accomodating to the school, Always met when they suggested. Never

> asked for additional meetings. Also, I had to fill out an

evaluation

> on my daughter in April, and they said " we need that back right

> away " so we can complete the evaluation process. Plus the current

> services are set to expire 6/30.

>

> I was able to contact a different administrator in the special

> services dept, she said she will find out what is causing the delay.

>

> Any thoughts?

>

[Guest guest]

As you probably know already they have 90 days to complete the eval

once written permission from the oarent/guardian is given (I assume

you signed perm to eval?). As soon as it's signed the timeline

starts ticking. All pcs of the eval should be complete before then

(now if they choose to add services at a later date, then that can be

added, but if your child gets OT,PT, ST, APE & Interventin services,

then all of those staff should complete an eval and write a report.

However that being said, I did have my prek school psych (new to us

this apst year) say to me that if " we " feel a child go go on to Kdg

w/o any services, then we do NOT have to eval him/her. As I said

this is new to me, we've always done a re-eval before going to school

age, so I don't really know if this a new law or just a different

interpretation of the law.

The school district where I live is different than the one where I

teach. At home they wil let the IEP " expire " and write a new one in

Aug/Sept at the beg of the school year, where I work, we do a new IEP

each year as the come up for the annual review (sometimes doing

multiple ones for same child if going ot kdg the next year and the

annual review falls during the school year).

I probably would be hounding the district on a daily basis (squeaky

wheel gets the grease) to find out what's going on with the eval. I

personally would want the services in place for my child's first day

in Kdg. Are you saying the team members that don't usually see your

chid are the ones who will be doing the eval? That may not be a bad

thing. Goodluck,

Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the advice. Actually I went to someone else that I know

that works with the child study team. This was on Wednesday morning

and now the ball is finally rolling. I became the squeaky wheel and

now they are getting it done. Yeh!

> >

> > Hi,

> >

> > Looking for suggestions and just needed to vent. I have a 5yr

old

> > daughter (apraxia, PDDnos, Sesnory, fine motor delays). She's

> > currently in the PSD class. September is Kindergarten (plan in

for

> > general ed class because she's improved alot). Anyway we had

our

> > annual IEP meeting in March as ususal. We agreed to

reavaluation.

> > School said that would be done within 60 days. This morning I

saw

> > our case manager and reminded her there is only 3 weeks left of

the

> > school year and I want ot review copies of the evaluations and

have

> > a meeting regarding services and placement for September. She

said

> > only her eval was complete (learning/education eval), but the

> speech

> > and psycological were not done yet. She sees the speech

therapist

> > 3x a week, so I don't know why it's taking that long. Plus I

see

> > the speech therapist almost every morning and she never

mentioned

> > any problems with getting the eval done. My case manager

mentioned

> > that there are people on staff during the summer, so we could

meet

> > then.

> >

> > But here are my issues with that: These child study team

members

> > are not the usual ones I usually meet with. I've always been

> > accomodating to the school, Always met when they suggested.

Never

> > asked for additional meetings. Also, I had to fill out an

> evaluation

> > on my daughter in April, and they said " we need that back right

> > away " so we can complete the evaluation process. Plus the

current

> > services are set to expire 6/30.

> >

> > I was able to contact a different administrator in the special

> > services dept, she said she will find out what is causing the

delay.

> >

> > Any thoughts?

> >

>