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<blockquote data-quote="Just keep swimming" data-source="post: 84097" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p></p><p>A little more info:</p><p></p><p>Aly is Main Streamed 5th grade for about 1/4 of her day, mostly PE, art, music, that sort of thing. All core academics are within a Resource classroom setting with kids that are also learning disabled/impaired.</p><p></p><p>As far as the "other health impaired" Aly has those as well with her Epilepsy, thyroid issues and urinary issues. But, my question was why they would change her main reason for Special Education from Learning Disabled to Learning Impaired. Do they think that she is impaired due to her health issues or her medications or her mental illness???? I still do not have a date for the new IEP, but should be in the next few weeks. </p><p></p><p>I guess I am just hoping that they are not "giving up" on Aly and thinking she is not capable of learning any more than she already knows. Yes, her learning is alot slower than her same age peers, but she is capable of continuing to learn, in my humble opinion.</p><p></p><p>The other issue we are seeing is that she has developed another "personality" at school. Her name is "J" at school (her middle name) and she insists at times to be called that. It freaked the resource teacher out, mental health came to school and evaluated her during that episode and reported to me that he is not sure it is a disassociative state, but could be. Also thinks it might just be her coping mechanism when she is overwhelmed. But it is a huge red flag as she has done this before when she was Sally instead of Aly when she did "bad" things. I will try to air on the side of wait and see and not panic. Although yesterday she had a rough day and had to have her ER medication and go to bed early. Just really scattered and a bit manic.</p><p></p><p>Anyways, I will be pushing for her to be able to graduate with her same age peers, if that is the right course for her. </p><p></p><p>Thanks for all the replies!</p><p></p><p>Hugs,</p><p>Vickie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Just keep swimming, post: 84097, member: 211"] Hi everyone, A little more info: Aly is Main Streamed 5th grade for about 1/4 of her day, mostly PE, art, music, that sort of thing. All core academics are within a Resource classroom setting with kids that are also learning disabled/impaired. As far as the "other health impaired" Aly has those as well with her Epilepsy, thyroid issues and urinary issues. But, my question was why they would change her main reason for Special Education from Learning Disabled to Learning Impaired. Do they think that she is impaired due to her health issues or her medications or her mental illness???? I still do not have a date for the new IEP, but should be in the next few weeks. I guess I am just hoping that they are not "giving up" on Aly and thinking she is not capable of learning any more than she already knows. Yes, her learning is alot slower than her same age peers, but she is capable of continuing to learn, in my humble opinion. The other issue we are seeing is that she has developed another "personality" at school. Her name is "J" at school (her middle name) and she insists at times to be called that. It freaked the resource teacher out, mental health came to school and evaluated her during that episode and reported to me that he is not sure it is a disassociative state, but could be. Also thinks it might just be her coping mechanism when she is overwhelmed. But it is a huge red flag as she has done this before when she was Sally instead of Aly when she did "bad" things. I will try to air on the side of wait and see and not panic. Although yesterday she had a rough day and had to have her ER medication and go to bed early. Just really scattered and a bit manic. Anyways, I will be pushing for her to be able to graduate with her same age peers, if that is the right course for her. Thanks for all the replies! Hugs, Vickie [/QUOTE]
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