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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 98400" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Susie is right--they aren't being honest with you and are skirting their responsibilities: if the SD doesn't know what to do with him then according to federal special education law the school district should be paying a *qualified* consultant to come in and develop one. If that means they bring in or send him for an assessment by someone from out of town with expertise in selective mutism and/or anxiety, then so be it. When my son's anxiety was very debilitating, the district arranged and paid for an Autism consultant to come in and observe him at home and school. She wrote up a report with observations and recommendations and presented it at an IEP meeting. SD also offered to bring in someone with a mental health background. I'm not saying it's not a good idea to involve your own specialists but the SD claiming they don't know what to do is totally acceptable. Legally they are responsible to educate your son and if that's not happening, they are responsible to find a information, a setting, staff, and/or staff training, etc. to make that happen.</p><p></p><p>in my opinion, determining that a smaller setting won't help because of one trial with mom and teacher not working is a bunch of hooey. There are many arrangements of smaller groups--for instance one that my district offered us was to have a homebound instructor meet with my son here at home or at another setting (school but not in the classroom, another district building, off site, etc) so as to take him out of the location where anxiety was making him so nonfunctional.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 98400, member: 701"] Susie is right--they aren't being honest with you and are skirting their responsibilities: if the SD doesn't know what to do with him then according to federal special education law the school district should be paying a *qualified* consultant to come in and develop one. If that means they bring in or send him for an assessment by someone from out of town with expertise in selective mutism and/or anxiety, then so be it. When my son's anxiety was very debilitating, the district arranged and paid for an Autism consultant to come in and observe him at home and school. She wrote up a report with observations and recommendations and presented it at an IEP meeting. SD also offered to bring in someone with a mental health background. I'm not saying it's not a good idea to involve your own specialists but the SD claiming they don't know what to do is totally acceptable. Legally they are responsible to educate your son and if that's not happening, they are responsible to find a information, a setting, staff, and/or staff training, etc. to make that happen. in my opinion, determining that a smaller setting won't help because of one trial with mom and teacher not working is a bunch of hooey. There are many arrangements of smaller groups--for instance one that my district offered us was to have a homebound instructor meet with my son here at home or at another setting (school but not in the classroom, another district building, off site, etc) so as to take him out of the location where anxiety was making him so nonfunctional. [/QUOTE]
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