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<blockquote data-quote="Liahona" data-source="post: 459533"><p>He needs one. IEPs protect our kids. The schools (most of them) sit up and take notice when a kid has an IEP. An IEP means your kid is going to be able to learn (in theory) because the school is going to accommodate for the diagnosis. It means that your very bright difficult child has a legal document that says he needs x,y, and z to be able to learn and the school is going to provide it. In reality some schools are great at IEPs and some you have to fight and sometimes even with an IEP in place and all adults doing everything they can the kiddo still has a hard time learning. Without an IEP my difficult child 1 would be lost right now. His reading is grade levels above everyone else. He loves math, but because of his behavior he would very soon fall behind with out the help spelled out in the IEP. And he would cause the rest of the class to fall behind too because the poor teacher would be spending all her time on difficult child 1 instead of teaching. </p><p></p><p>Your wife can request that he be tested by the school. Because he is so smart he probably won't qualify from the IQ or academic testing, but from what you wrote he would qualify because of his behaviors. Also, if the neuropsychologist diagnosis him with autism then the diagnosis will qualify him. To qualify his behavior has to be bad enough to interfere with the other kids learning or his own learning. The school psychologist can do observations and you can request Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations that are part of the IEP testing. Even with getting the school to do the testing it would be good to get independent testing done through your insurance company. The independent testing usually trumps the schools testing if they come up with different results. The independent testing is more thorough and is usually interpreted better. I've taken the schools testing to independent testers and they have interpreted it much differently than the school did. And even if you get the independent testing done first the school will still (probably) want to do there own testing; at least some of it.</p><p></p><p>good luck. You have found a great place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liahona, post: 459533"] He needs one. IEPs protect our kids. The schools (most of them) sit up and take notice when a kid has an IEP. An IEP means your kid is going to be able to learn (in theory) because the school is going to accommodate for the diagnosis. It means that your very bright difficult child has a legal document that says he needs x,y, and z to be able to learn and the school is going to provide it. In reality some schools are great at IEPs and some you have to fight and sometimes even with an IEP in place and all adults doing everything they can the kiddo still has a hard time learning. Without an IEP my difficult child 1 would be lost right now. His reading is grade levels above everyone else. He loves math, but because of his behavior he would very soon fall behind with out the help spelled out in the IEP. And he would cause the rest of the class to fall behind too because the poor teacher would be spending all her time on difficult child 1 instead of teaching. Your wife can request that he be tested by the school. Because he is so smart he probably won't qualify from the IQ or academic testing, but from what you wrote he would qualify because of his behaviors. Also, if the neuropsychologist diagnosis him with autism then the diagnosis will qualify him. To qualify his behavior has to be bad enough to interfere with the other kids learning or his own learning. The school psychologist can do observations and you can request Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations that are part of the IEP testing. Even with getting the school to do the testing it would be good to get independent testing done through your insurance company. The independent testing usually trumps the schools testing if they come up with different results. The independent testing is more thorough and is usually interpreted better. I've taken the schools testing to independent testers and they have interpreted it much differently than the school did. And even if you get the independent testing done first the school will still (probably) want to do there own testing; at least some of it. good luck. You have found a great place. [/QUOTE]
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