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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 298402" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>If he's ADHD, that isn't classified as a Mood Disorder and it does qualify him for an IEP. If it's a mood disorder, you need to either go for depression with a classification of emotional disturbance (which usually is taken as "behavior impedes learning of him or others", unfortunately), or Bipolar. If Bipolar, no matter what the sd tells you, that is considered a health impairment (classified as OHI- other health impaired) by the federal government. I found written proof of that. </p><p></p><p>In either case, you'll either need a letter from a doctor or a psychologist or other mental helth professional or psychological test results attesting to one of these "disorders". That being said, if he was already on an IEP, they cannot take him off just because he had absences last year. You have to agree to take him off the IEP or they have to completely re-evaluate him and find him "not qualifying". I don't have a lot of faith in the school's psychologist in these matters and that will be the person to evaluate this. You can submit your own documents of testing, diagnosis, etc. from other professionals and by law, it has to be taken into consideration by the IEP team, which includes you. You can also asked for another evaluation to be done by a private psychologist, at the public's expense, if you don't agree with whatever the school psychologist comes up with.</p><p></p><p>If he was on an IEP but had excessive absences last year, there should have been a Manifestation hearing to determine if it was a result of his disability and an IEP meeting to review accommodations and placement needs. I don't know why people in school systems seem to be so unknowledgable abbout this stuff. It sounds like they are the ones who didn't address things the way they should have last year and now they don't want to deal with it at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 298402, member: 3699"] If he's ADHD, that isn't classified as a Mood Disorder and it does qualify him for an IEP. If it's a mood disorder, you need to either go for depression with a classification of emotional disturbance (which usually is taken as "behavior impedes learning of him or others", unfortunately), or Bipolar. If Bipolar, no matter what the sd tells you, that is considered a health impairment (classified as OHI- other health impaired) by the federal government. I found written proof of that. In either case, you'll either need a letter from a doctor or a psychologist or other mental helth professional or psychological test results attesting to one of these "disorders". That being said, if he was already on an IEP, they cannot take him off just because he had absences last year. You have to agree to take him off the IEP or they have to completely re-evaluate him and find him "not qualifying". I don't have a lot of faith in the school's psychologist in these matters and that will be the person to evaluate this. You can submit your own documents of testing, diagnosis, etc. from other professionals and by law, it has to be taken into consideration by the IEP team, which includes you. You can also asked for another evaluation to be done by a private psychologist, at the public's expense, if you don't agree with whatever the school psychologist comes up with. If he was on an IEP but had excessive absences last year, there should have been a Manifestation hearing to determine if it was a result of his disability and an IEP meeting to review accommodations and placement needs. I don't know why people in school systems seem to be so unknowledgable abbout this stuff. It sounds like they are the ones who didn't address things the way they should have last year and now they don't want to deal with it at all. [/QUOTE]
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