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Is there any laws/bills re: children with mental disabilities?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lillyth" data-source="post: 199751" data-attributes="member: 5975"><p>Jal is right.</p><p></p><p>It ALL comes down to money...</p><p></p><p>I have heard from other parents in my SD that their clearly Learning Disability (LD) kids come back "fine" Every parent I know who finally got their kid an IEP for their disability had to spend money out of their pocket to get the proper evaluations.</p><p></p><p>I have also heard on kids who sat in a corner, drooling, who had NO language whatsoever being blown off by our SD, as not being autistic.</p><p></p><p>It pisses me off that so many of us have to go through this.</p><p></p><p>What pisses me off EVEN MORE, is that the schools are FEDERALLY MANDATED to provide our children services -- but guess what?!!?!</p><p></p><p>The Feds DON'T PAY FOR IT!</p><p></p><p>So, in essence, the Federal Government says that the states must pay for this, and give them next to nothing for it.</p><p></p><p>I think THAT is the major problem here. The Federal Government is bearing NO responsibility to pay for the things they are making the states do.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps what we need to do is band together and get some legislation passed that would REQUIRE the Federal Government to pay for all of this, that way the broke SD won't feel so compelled to tell us our kids are doing fine, and pass kids who only complete 25% of their work...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lillyth, post: 199751, member: 5975"] Jal is right. It ALL comes down to money... I have heard from other parents in my SD that their clearly Learning Disability (LD) kids come back "fine" Every parent I know who finally got their kid an IEP for their disability had to spend money out of their pocket to get the proper evaluations. I have also heard on kids who sat in a corner, drooling, who had NO language whatsoever being blown off by our SD, as not being autistic. It pisses me off that so many of us have to go through this. What pisses me off EVEN MORE, is that the schools are FEDERALLY MANDATED to provide our children services -- but guess what?!!?! The Feds DON'T PAY FOR IT! So, in essence, the Federal Government says that the states must pay for this, and give them next to nothing for it. I think THAT is the major problem here. The Federal Government is bearing NO responsibility to pay for the things they are making the states do. Perhaps what we need to do is band together and get some legislation passed that would REQUIRE the Federal Government to pay for all of this, that way the broke SD won't feel so compelled to tell us our kids are doing fine, and pass kids who only complete 25% of their work... [/QUOTE]
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