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Comments on letter to SPED director please
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<blockquote data-quote="dadside" data-source="post: 253595" data-attributes="member: 5707"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Clearly, you've got a number of worthwhile points. However, I suggest you restructure your letter, making it considerably shorter in order to clearly identify the issues needing attention, and requesting a meeting to discuss them. Don't include full detail of the issues, or of your view/request on each. A revision of your son's IEP will require a formal team meeting, but you might be able to "work out" much of the issues ahead of the team meeting. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Given the nature of some of your concerns, you and your son might be better served if you raise them as questions in a discussion rather than asserting that the school may not be complying with the law -- whether or not they currently are. Present the details of your issues for a meeting with the appropriate school person (spec. ed. director?, principal?).</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">You might say that as you learn more about your son's disabilities and needs, several issues relating to his education have come to the foreground. Your principal concerns might be listed in roughly the same order they might be in his IEP, or in order of their significance to your son's needs. Present them as <u>your</u> concerns, not what someone else said. And for everybody's sake, please don't cite the law -- doing so will only make them turn defensive. (Also remember that the law doesn't call for the "best", but only for what is "appropriate". The IEP committee, of which you as a parent are a part, is charged with making the plan, so there too ask for what is appropriate vs. inappropriate, not for "best".) </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Recognize that you may not get "everything" you want for your son, so while you may ask for a lot, you should have priorities in mind -- "musts", then desirable, then sort-of "bonus" requests. You may want a trained advocate with you at the next IEP meeting, or even to guide you along the way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dadside, post: 253595, member: 5707"] [SIZE=2]Clearly, you've got a number of worthwhile points. However, I suggest you restructure your letter, making it considerably shorter in order to clearly identify the issues needing attention, and requesting a meeting to discuss them. Don't include full detail of the issues, or of your view/request on each. A revision of your son's IEP will require a formal team meeting, but you might be able to "work out" much of the issues ahead of the team meeting. Given the nature of some of your concerns, you and your son might be better served if you raise them as questions in a discussion rather than asserting that the school may not be complying with the law -- whether or not they currently are. Present the details of your issues for a meeting with the appropriate school person (spec. ed. director?, principal?). You might say that as you learn more about your son's disabilities and needs, several issues relating to his education have come to the foreground. Your principal concerns might be listed in roughly the same order they might be in his IEP, or in order of their significance to your son's needs. Present them as [U]your[/U] concerns, not what someone else said. And for everybody's sake, please don't cite the law -- doing so will only make them turn defensive. (Also remember that the law doesn't call for the "best", but only for what is "appropriate". The IEP committee, of which you as a parent are a part, is charged with making the plan, so there too ask for what is appropriate vs. inappropriate, not for "best".) Recognize that you may not get "everything" you want for your son, so while you may ask for a lot, you should have priorities in mind -- "musts", then desirable, then sort-of "bonus" requests. You may want a trained advocate with you at the next IEP meeting, or even to guide you along the way. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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