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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 462584" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>It sounds like you need an advocate to help you by attending the meetings with you.</p><p></p><p>The alternative is to request a mediation. If possible without filing a due process hearing.</p><p></p><p>As for getting it in writing. The IEP document should contain all the "evidence" you need of the school's agreements and a record of the way the meetings went including a record of significant disagreements should be contained in a narrative at the end. different places call this different things but there should be something like that included in the IEP document.</p><p></p><p>If you do not agree to the IEP as proposed then you should either be signing it with a notation that you do not agree with xyz part, or refuse xyz service or that you refuse to consent to the IEP.</p><p></p><p>It is not wise to refuse to go to the meeting in my opinion. The district has the legal right to go ahead and do an IEP if you don't cooperate with agreeing to meet. They must do their best to accommodate your schedule but there are specific provisions of the law that let them go ahead even when a parent refuses to show up.</p><p></p><p>And there is only limited provisions for doing an IEP meeting without an actual meeting. It is pretty much reserved for meetings where only minor changes, agreed to by all parties, are being made. For example a small modification of the goals.</p><p></p><p>I suggest you visit the Wright's Law website and read through the information there about IEP's and the specific areas that you are in disagreement with the district about.</p><p></p><p>And you should be recording the meetings if possible, although it can increase the adversarial air of the meeting. But if you think you will be going to due process and you don't have an advocate attending with you then I think you should do that. You must give the district at least 24 hours advance written notice of your intent to record the meeting.</p><p></p><p>Feel free to post more about the kinds of disagreements you are having and what you would like the district to do that it is not doing and we'll try to give you more advice on those areas. You can also search the archives for info about those things to save folks sharing things with you that have already been addressed a lot in previous posts.</p><p></p><p>Good luck,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 462584, member: 11920"] It sounds like you need an advocate to help you by attending the meetings with you. The alternative is to request a mediation. If possible without filing a due process hearing. As for getting it in writing. The IEP document should contain all the "evidence" you need of the school's agreements and a record of the way the meetings went including a record of significant disagreements should be contained in a narrative at the end. different places call this different things but there should be something like that included in the IEP document. If you do not agree to the IEP as proposed then you should either be signing it with a notation that you do not agree with xyz part, or refuse xyz service or that you refuse to consent to the IEP. It is not wise to refuse to go to the meeting in my opinion. The district has the legal right to go ahead and do an IEP if you don't cooperate with agreeing to meet. They must do their best to accommodate your schedule but there are specific provisions of the law that let them go ahead even when a parent refuses to show up. And there is only limited provisions for doing an IEP meeting without an actual meeting. It is pretty much reserved for meetings where only minor changes, agreed to by all parties, are being made. For example a small modification of the goals. I suggest you visit the Wright's Law website and read through the information there about IEP's and the specific areas that you are in disagreement with the district about. And you should be recording the meetings if possible, although it can increase the adversarial air of the meeting. But if you think you will be going to due process and you don't have an advocate attending with you then I think you should do that. You must give the district at least 24 hours advance written notice of your intent to record the meeting. Feel free to post more about the kinds of disagreements you are having and what you would like the district to do that it is not doing and we'll try to give you more advice on those areas. You can also search the archives for info about those things to save folks sharing things with you that have already been addressed a lot in previous posts. Good luck, [/QUOTE]
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