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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 703591" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>If you are still checking in, GO TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES! No matter your religion! They are truly there to help and especially to help children. If the local level is too underfunded/overextended to help you right away, go up the chain to the regional or state level. My father in law volunteers with them and many relatives have also done so over many years (in very different states) and they would be more than willing to help.</p><p></p><p>Also get started on a Parent Report. It is a document about your child and what is and has gone on with her. You write it and keep it up to date, and take it to all appointments. When things were so awful with my son, it was our most powerful weapon be cause I could show a doctor what we had done, or not done, and why, or what the result was, because I had the info at my fingertips. Moms here long before me wrote the outline and I don't think my son would have come as far as he has without it because each new doctor would have wanted to reinvent the wheel rather than build on the previous doctors' work. The link in my signature will take you to the outline for the Parent Report, so you can write one for your precious daughter to get her the help you need.</p><p></p><p>Also, given what you describe, her not getting an IEP is bogus. They are snowing you. Any child going from all As to failing needs one. There is a reason for her failing and SCHOOL has the responsibility for figuring it out and fixing it. It is called FAPE in LRE, or Free and Appropriate Public Education in Least Restrictive Environment. You need to write a letter and send it by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the school. This puts a timeline into place for them to test her and give you a meeting to discuss her results. If you don't put the request in writing and mail it with the whole certified mail return receipt requested, you cannot prove when they got the letter. The Special Education forum here has templates of letters you can use to request the evaluation if you would like. Or others here can help with that. I just think the school has given you the runaround, which schools do with smart kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 703591, member: 1233"] If you are still checking in, GO TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES! No matter your religion! They are truly there to help and especially to help children. If the local level is too underfunded/overextended to help you right away, go up the chain to the regional or state level. My father in law volunteers with them and many relatives have also done so over many years (in very different states) and they would be more than willing to help. Also get started on a Parent Report. It is a document about your child and what is and has gone on with her. You write it and keep it up to date, and take it to all appointments. When things were so awful with my son, it was our most powerful weapon be cause I could show a doctor what we had done, or not done, and why, or what the result was, because I had the info at my fingertips. Moms here long before me wrote the outline and I don't think my son would have come as far as he has without it because each new doctor would have wanted to reinvent the wheel rather than build on the previous doctors' work. The link in my signature will take you to the outline for the Parent Report, so you can write one for your precious daughter to get her the help you need. Also, given what you describe, her not getting an IEP is bogus. They are snowing you. Any child going from all As to failing needs one. There is a reason for her failing and SCHOOL has the responsibility for figuring it out and fixing it. It is called FAPE in LRE, or Free and Appropriate Public Education in Least Restrictive Environment. You need to write a letter and send it by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the school. This puts a timeline into place for them to test her and give you a meeting to discuss her results. If you don't put the request in writing and mail it with the whole certified mail return receipt requested, you cannot prove when they got the letter. The Special Education forum here has templates of letters you can use to request the evaluation if you would like. Or others here can help with that. I just think the school has given you the runaround, which schools do with smart kids. [/QUOTE]
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