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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 424546" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>Hi Welcome and sorry you need to be here.</p><p></p><p>You need to get an education advocate to help you. It's very important and urgent. You should do whatever you can to delay the hearing until you can get help.</p><p></p><p>To find an advocate you can do several different things. You can contact your Special Education department and tell them you want a list of advocates in your area. Sounds like you are in a rural area so that might be a very short list. When you get that list, call every one on it and leave them a message telling them what you need and the date of the hearing.</p><p></p><p>You don't say what state you are in but, assuming you are in the US, each state has a network of centers funded by the Federal gov't and run by the State that is supposed to provide free advocacy to parents of children who are eligible for Special Education. These centers/agencies are usually a part of the State Developmental Disabilities agency - whatever that is called in your state. If you are in a rural state like the central northern states there may only be one or two in your state.</p><p></p><p>If at all possible get an advocate to agree to help you, even if all they do right away is write a letter to the school district asking for a delay in the hearing until they can attend to represent you and your son.</p><p></p><p>The manifestation hearing is held to determine whether your son's behavior is a result of his disabilities or not.</p><p></p><p>If the hearing officer (usually the head of Special Education) determines the behavior is not be a result of his disabilities then the school district is free to punish him under the rules usually applied to all students. In this case, my guess is that they will expel him for bringing a knife to school.</p><p></p><p>At his age, my guess is that between his issues and behavior that will spell end of his high school career but, unless he is emancipated, you will be stuck with him until he turns 18.</p><p></p><p>Usually, a diagnosis of ODD is just a label of obnoxious behaviors. Most parents on this board have a kid who started or was given this label at some point. But about 99% of these kids were later diagnosed with serious mental health, developmental, neurological or other disorders that were the cause or contributing to the ODD behavior. Treating those underlying problems often reduces the ODD behaviors or gives you some tools/medications that will help the child learn to manage their own problems better.</p><p></p><p>It sounds like your son is certainly on some medications that suggest he should have some diagnoses other than ADHD and ODD. If you have a chance to tell us more about your son's history (like if he's adopted), what other diagnoses he has, who has diagnosed him and who is prescribing his medications (psychiatrist? family doctor?) it would be helpful.</p><p></p><p>I suggest that you search for and read the recent (past 3 months or so) threads about manifestation hearings. There have been several people who have gone through this process and gotten a lot of advice from the board and you can pull that up and use what applies to your situation.</p><p></p><p>Patricia</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 424546, member: 7948"] Hi Welcome and sorry you need to be here. You need to get an education advocate to help you. It's very important and urgent. You should do whatever you can to delay the hearing until you can get help. To find an advocate you can do several different things. You can contact your Special Education department and tell them you want a list of advocates in your area. Sounds like you are in a rural area so that might be a very short list. When you get that list, call every one on it and leave them a message telling them what you need and the date of the hearing. You don't say what state you are in but, assuming you are in the US, each state has a network of centers funded by the Federal gov't and run by the State that is supposed to provide free advocacy to parents of children who are eligible for Special Education. These centers/agencies are usually a part of the State Developmental Disabilities agency - whatever that is called in your state. If you are in a rural state like the central northern states there may only be one or two in your state. If at all possible get an advocate to agree to help you, even if all they do right away is write a letter to the school district asking for a delay in the hearing until they can attend to represent you and your son. The manifestation hearing is held to determine whether your son's behavior is a result of his disabilities or not. If the hearing officer (usually the head of Special Education) determines the behavior is not be a result of his disabilities then the school district is free to punish him under the rules usually applied to all students. In this case, my guess is that they will expel him for bringing a knife to school. At his age, my guess is that between his issues and behavior that will spell end of his high school career but, unless he is emancipated, you will be stuck with him until he turns 18. Usually, a diagnosis of ODD is just a label of obnoxious behaviors. Most parents on this board have a kid who started or was given this label at some point. But about 99% of these kids were later diagnosed with serious mental health, developmental, neurological or other disorders that were the cause or contributing to the ODD behavior. Treating those underlying problems often reduces the ODD behaviors or gives you some tools/medications that will help the child learn to manage their own problems better. It sounds like your son is certainly on some medications that suggest he should have some diagnoses other than ADHD and ODD. If you have a chance to tell us more about your son's history (like if he's adopted), what other diagnoses he has, who has diagnosed him and who is prescribing his medications (psychiatrist? family doctor?) it would be helpful. I suggest that you search for and read the recent (past 3 months or so) threads about manifestation hearings. There have been several people who have gone through this process and gotten a lot of advice from the board and you can pull that up and use what applies to your situation. Patricia [/QUOTE]
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