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IEPER Placement Decision Question
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 471787" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Huge right on to slsh and keista....and I would even emphasize that IF they out and out say they dont have the funds for 1:1 aide or 'we dont do that here" that is ILLEGAL. They can not deny an appropriate service based on funds by law. (however, it is their reality that they have a budget and will try usually in more subtle ways to avoid the services needed). They also can not make decisions district wide for all students like....we have Special Education kids come ten minutes after gen ed students and leave 15 minutes earlier so they dont have to deal with the challenges of the halls etc... Those kinds of accomodations are appropriate for SOME kids and they must be written into the IEP.</p><p></p><p>You do not have to do an all or nothing refusal of the assessment or an IEP. You can say you disagree and then work out the concerns. It usually works out but you may have to be very persistent and get some muscle (advocates or lawyers) to help. You ARE an equal member but by law you are not the only decision maker in terms of the proposal. You do decide whether to go along with the teams decision though. </p><p></p><p>I left a district that I can hardly believe started doing this....but they were saying my difficult child had to prove himself in the sp. ed setting in order to get any mainstream setting....that is the exact opposite of LRE. They even told a woman i talked to that her preschool daughter with down syndrome the same...that she needed to go to sp. ed class first and if she had the skills they would place her little by little in mainstream. I have also been told "we dont do that" in regard to 1:1 speech, DAPE (adapted phy ed) and Occupational Therapist (OT). Again, illegal. They may not do that as routine practice but if it is what is needed for a child to progress then it is mandated they must. Too bad for them I am an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and had many 1:1 students, you do it if you have to do it! My son now gets 1:1 for all of these (Occupational Therapist (OT) consults every day too) but he had to go thru a year where they actually gave me progress reports stating "no progress" on his IEP goals...I was not informed things were not going well even at all the meetings and conferences....I was livid. Never again.</p><p></p><p>Remember, many typical schools have gifted and talented teachers and classes but are not advertised as G/T schools. Gifted programming is as important a service as any of the other special education services! many gifted children have behavior problems because they are simply square pegs being put in round holes. Sounds like you have more than that going on, but it I would never let the placement team ignore this part of the education needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 471787, member: 12886"] Huge right on to slsh and keista....and I would even emphasize that IF they out and out say they dont have the funds for 1:1 aide or 'we dont do that here" that is ILLEGAL. They can not deny an appropriate service based on funds by law. (however, it is their reality that they have a budget and will try usually in more subtle ways to avoid the services needed). They also can not make decisions district wide for all students like....we have Special Education kids come ten minutes after gen ed students and leave 15 minutes earlier so they dont have to deal with the challenges of the halls etc... Those kinds of accomodations are appropriate for SOME kids and they must be written into the IEP. You do not have to do an all or nothing refusal of the assessment or an IEP. You can say you disagree and then work out the concerns. It usually works out but you may have to be very persistent and get some muscle (advocates or lawyers) to help. You ARE an equal member but by law you are not the only decision maker in terms of the proposal. You do decide whether to go along with the teams decision though. I left a district that I can hardly believe started doing this....but they were saying my difficult child had to prove himself in the sp. ed setting in order to get any mainstream setting....that is the exact opposite of LRE. They even told a woman i talked to that her preschool daughter with down syndrome the same...that she needed to go to sp. ed class first and if she had the skills they would place her little by little in mainstream. I have also been told "we dont do that" in regard to 1:1 speech, DAPE (adapted phy ed) and Occupational Therapist (OT). Again, illegal. They may not do that as routine practice but if it is what is needed for a child to progress then it is mandated they must. Too bad for them I am an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and had many 1:1 students, you do it if you have to do it! My son now gets 1:1 for all of these (Occupational Therapist (OT) consults every day too) but he had to go thru a year where they actually gave me progress reports stating "no progress" on his IEP goals...I was not informed things were not going well even at all the meetings and conferences....I was livid. Never again. Remember, many typical schools have gifted and talented teachers and classes but are not advertised as G/T schools. Gifted programming is as important a service as any of the other special education services! many gifted children have behavior problems because they are simply square pegs being put in round holes. Sounds like you have more than that going on, but it I would never let the placement team ignore this part of the education needed. [/QUOTE]
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