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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 59826" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>IDEA has gone through several revisions even in the few years since my difficult child has gone off to school so it's best to get your advice on this from the Special Education board as they keep current. I got caught early on because of this: I was told by everyone that the district had to provide full speech therapy to my preschooler who was attending private preschool. So when they denied the full number of hours he needed, I started to put up a stink only to find the law had changed 2 months earlier. </p><p></p><p>I think we all worry but I don't know that our forum is representative of the general population. Not only do people seek us out for difficult children issues, but they also come looking for help with getting services for them. Parents whose districts are cooperating usually won't have reason to post it here.</p><p></p><p>I went into this thinking I would have to fight for everything and to my delight have found that for the most part the district was willing to provide what was needed. There have also been times when they have gone way above and beyond what most schools would have. For instance, the social worker suggested implementing a social skills training program into my son's IEP but taught it to the entire class so he'd have peers to practice with. And for the last two years they have continued to give him speech therapy specifically for social skills practice. There wasn't a test in the world that would have qualified him for speech these past two years but as they saw the benefit to him, they continued it.</p><p></p><p>Obviously not every district will be like mine, but I think a good place to start is to be very informed. In the end you may need to pull out the punches...but that's not necessarily the place you need to start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 59826, member: 701"] IDEA has gone through several revisions even in the few years since my difficult child has gone off to school so it's best to get your advice on this from the Special Education board as they keep current. I got caught early on because of this: I was told by everyone that the district had to provide full speech therapy to my preschooler who was attending private preschool. So when they denied the full number of hours he needed, I started to put up a stink only to find the law had changed 2 months earlier. I think we all worry but I don't know that our forum is representative of the general population. Not only do people seek us out for difficult children issues, but they also come looking for help with getting services for them. Parents whose districts are cooperating usually won't have reason to post it here. I went into this thinking I would have to fight for everything and to my delight have found that for the most part the district was willing to provide what was needed. There have also been times when they have gone way above and beyond what most schools would have. For instance, the social worker suggested implementing a social skills training program into my son's IEP but taught it to the entire class so he'd have peers to practice with. And for the last two years they have continued to give him speech therapy specifically for social skills practice. There wasn't a test in the world that would have qualified him for speech these past two years but as they saw the benefit to him, they continued it. Obviously not every district will be like mine, but I think a good place to start is to be very informed. In the end you may need to pull out the punches...but that's not necessarily the place you need to start. [/QUOTE]
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