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Newbie - Wondering if it is too late to help my son
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 405878" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I do NOT trust assessments done by schools for the most part. When our school evaluated thank you for sensory issues they only identified hand problems. The private Occupational Therapist (OT) found severe sensory integration disorder. We successfully got a 504 plan for him that exempted him from the attendance requirements (if you miss more than 9% of the school days you flunk period. you can go and refuse to work and they will pass you but if you are sick and miss school you flunk even with straight A's (which he always has). For the third grade he missed 1/4 of the days because sensory overload!! He would shake and be unable to cope and if we sent him to school anyway he got severely anxious, headaches, just couldn't cope with anything. By keeping him home and working on brushing therapy, etc... he is now at the point where he didn't miss any days the first half of this year (fifth grade). He missed 3 weeks ago because he was sick for 1 day, then 2 days this week for being sick. But that is a FAR cry from a couple of years ago.</p><p> </p><p>If we had just listened to school they would have flunked him AND taken us to court over his "truancy" because he was sick those days!</p><p> </p><p>School districts NEVER know about advocates until you bring one with you. You get them through the state dept of ed or board of ed. A group of parents here when Wiz was in sixth grade became HATED by the school because 2 of us got advocates and introduced them to the other parents (who all got services from the advocates). We then turned over evidence of dirty dealing by the sp ed teacher and it resulted in a big lawsuit for the other parents and I got a written agreement that my kids get whatever services I and the docs (private) think they need for as long as I have a child in school. I caught where the sp ed teacher changed the IEP and forged my name. You would THINK she would get fired, but instead she was teacher of the year that same year and became principal of the alternative school the next year!!!! Yet another reason that I do NOT trust schools to evaluate things or handle things appropriately!!!!</p><p> </p><p>Be SURE to read through the sp ed archives and follow the advice/instructions there. Also work on a Parent Report if you don't already have one. They are enormously helpful. You can find the Parent Report info through the link in my signature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 405878, member: 1233"] I do NOT trust assessments done by schools for the most part. When our school evaluated thank you for sensory issues they only identified hand problems. The private Occupational Therapist (OT) found severe sensory integration disorder. We successfully got a 504 plan for him that exempted him from the attendance requirements (if you miss more than 9% of the school days you flunk period. you can go and refuse to work and they will pass you but if you are sick and miss school you flunk even with straight A's (which he always has). For the third grade he missed 1/4 of the days because sensory overload!! He would shake and be unable to cope and if we sent him to school anyway he got severely anxious, headaches, just couldn't cope with anything. By keeping him home and working on brushing therapy, etc... he is now at the point where he didn't miss any days the first half of this year (fifth grade). He missed 3 weeks ago because he was sick for 1 day, then 2 days this week for being sick. But that is a FAR cry from a couple of years ago. If we had just listened to school they would have flunked him AND taken us to court over his "truancy" because he was sick those days! School districts NEVER know about advocates until you bring one with you. You get them through the state dept of ed or board of ed. A group of parents here when Wiz was in sixth grade became HATED by the school because 2 of us got advocates and introduced them to the other parents (who all got services from the advocates). We then turned over evidence of dirty dealing by the sp ed teacher and it resulted in a big lawsuit for the other parents and I got a written agreement that my kids get whatever services I and the docs (private) think they need for as long as I have a child in school. I caught where the sp ed teacher changed the IEP and forged my name. You would THINK she would get fired, but instead she was teacher of the year that same year and became principal of the alternative school the next year!!!! Yet another reason that I do NOT trust schools to evaluate things or handle things appropriately!!!! Be SURE to read through the sp ed archives and follow the advice/instructions there. Also work on a Parent Report if you don't already have one. They are enormously helpful. You can find the Parent Report info through the link in my signature. [/QUOTE]
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