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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 86732" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>Regarding the LDs, you all are trying to work in the dark, e.g., is it a processing problem, a memory problem, a language problem, a math problem, and/or visual motor skill problem, etc? Without knowing, an effective IEP can't be developed.</p><p></p><p>If it's been 3 years since your daughter was evaluated, it's past time to have it done again in my opinion. </p><p></p><p>Your daughter was 9 when the evaluation was done. It happens that some students' Learning Disability (LD) are not even pickup until 7th, 8th or 9th grades. Very subtle problems noted in elementary school can become a "big deal" as students advance through school. Without appropriate remediation and accommodations, she'll likely fall further and further behind in school and anxiety issues may get out of hand.</p><p></p><p>I'd request that the school district perform the evaluation, and if you don't feel that gives correct and adequate information about the LDs, get a private evaluation or ask for an IEE. (In writing and via certified mail. There are some sample letters in the Sp Ed Archives if you need them.)</p><p></p><p>There is a difference in remediating and accommodating. For example, a couple of my son's accommodations were an extra set of books at home and highlighting text. That's good, great and fine except:</p><p></p><p>An extra set of books at home helps with his forgetting to bring them home, but in that his language skills were so delayed that he couldn't comprehend what he read, what was the point? What was really needed? Remediation via extensive, intensive language therapy. </p><p></p><p>Highlighting is a great strategy to teach, HOWEVER, when I asked them if he would be allowed to highlight both sets of text books they looked at me like I had lost my mind. The answer was "no!" Soooo, the point of the accommodation was what? It didn't teach my son the language skills he needed to be successful in school nor the future job market.</p><p></p><p>Teaching a student to compensate for weaknesses is a good thing, but it should not take the place of remediation if remediation is possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 86732, member: 23"] Regarding the LDs, you all are trying to work in the dark, e.g., is it a processing problem, a memory problem, a language problem, a math problem, and/or visual motor skill problem, etc? Without knowing, an effective IEP can't be developed. If it's been 3 years since your daughter was evaluated, it's past time to have it done again in my opinion. Your daughter was 9 when the evaluation was done. It happens that some students' Learning Disability (LD) are not even pickup until 7th, 8th or 9th grades. Very subtle problems noted in elementary school can become a "big deal" as students advance through school. Without appropriate remediation and accommodations, she'll likely fall further and further behind in school and anxiety issues may get out of hand. I'd request that the school district perform the evaluation, and if you don't feel that gives correct and adequate information about the LDs, get a private evaluation or ask for an IEE. (In writing and via certified mail. There are some sample letters in the Sp Ed Archives if you need them.) There is a difference in remediating and accommodating. For example, a couple of my son's accommodations were an extra set of books at home and highlighting text. That's good, great and fine except: An extra set of books at home helps with his forgetting to bring them home, but in that his language skills were so delayed that he couldn't comprehend what he read, what was the point? What was really needed? Remediation via extensive, intensive language therapy. Highlighting is a great strategy to teach, HOWEVER, when I asked them if he would be allowed to highlight both sets of text books they looked at me like I had lost my mind. The answer was "no!" Soooo, the point of the accommodation was what? It didn't teach my son the language skills he needed to be successful in school nor the future job market. Teaching a student to compensate for weaknesses is a good thing, but it should not take the place of remediation if remediation is possible. [/QUOTE]
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