Haven't gotten the results back yet, but a
m pushing the doctor's office to get them prior to an ARD on Wednesday. I got his psychiatrist to document his psychosomatic symptoms and depression are directly related to his academic enviroment and cirriculum and he recommends placement at the Monarch School, and he put him on homebound for the second time in three years due to school's stall tactics!
The SD sent me an email at 530 pm on the Friday before they were out for the Holidays saying:
You will be receiving a new ARD/IEP written notice that will reflect two additional items:
1.
your request for discussion regarding placement at Monarch School
2. the district's request for additional assessment. (which they will probably take 90 days to complete!)
Because of the Thanksgiving vacation, you will not receive the notice within five school days. Will you waive the five day notice so we can go ahead and still have the ARD at 8:15 on 12/3/08?
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving.
My response is what assessment are they going to request due to the Special Education Exec Director stating in a letter on 10/22/08 granting an IEE by the evaluator who just did one in March of 07 and said "Why another one?" I said because they are not educating him and he has degressed.
Special Education Exec Director statingI do believe that the full individual evaluation done by our staff at SD. is through and well done. The evaluation is appropriate and should be used as a basis to develop difficult childs program.
I finally got the US Dept of ED on the phone today for a 45 minute call and the contact person's name over TX in Washington, D.C. to ensure compliance with IDEA with the state. The person I talked to said he would go over our conversation and have her return my call.