I need some help please! My son has a special review next week they will change a few things. I have the option to change my sons identification to other health impaired or should it stay as learning disabled can someone tell me the difference. Which would be better to list him as and why. I am really confused right now. Can he be listed for both? Does one out weigh the other. :?:
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We live in the state of SC. We have a parent advocate who we met with 1 time.
I just don’t know what to ask for, So my son will learn easier. I start feeling intimated by the school at the IEP’s. It’s almost like they are ganging up on me and that they have rehearsed everything they want to say. What can I ask for as far as accommodations.
My son has a really had time with reading/spelling/math/ect. His reading is at 1.5 he’s in the third grade. He hates school and everthing about it. o this make it even harder.
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It is sooooo frustrating!
The problem is that so often the official people at an IEP meeting do gang up on you and do rehearse it! Some schools are so much better than others.
Niether of my children at ADD or ADHD so I can offer no suggestions on that but others here can if you start a thread asking for ideas on accomidations and/or modifcations. (I hang out in this forum as my older son had anxity disorder and faces some similar issues as ADD children.)
My younger son is LD so I am familar with that. If you felt comfortable posting your child’s test results in the LD forum, the people there could review it and offer suggestions. It’s probably bad form to suggest other web sites but the people at the bulletin board on schwablearning.org are also great and have walked a lot of folks though the IEP process.
It sounds wrong that you have only met with the advocate once and were kind of left hanging. What agency did you go through or was it a private one?
Barb
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My DD is also in the 3rd grade, but has been tested at grade 1.5 also. She made NO progress in her reading last year, but because we are in a DoDD school, unless she cannot communicate or read AT ALL, I can’t even get them to consider an IEP. Also, she could benefit from more speech therapy, as she has a lingering lisp, but again, if she can communicate AT ALL, then no IEP will be considered.
I think this year will find my fighting for my childrens educations more than ever before.
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katya,
My kids were in a DODDS school in Heidelberg,Germany. Both were enrolled with current stateside IEP’s back in 2000 but had to be reevaluated for DODDS IEP’s. My older son has inattentive adhd and is sp.ed under the Other Health Impaired category, he was relatively easy to place because he qualified there under Cat. A He takes medicine and needs support to be successful in the classroom. We recently moved back to VA this summer with the DODDS IEP and made a smooth transition to public school. The other son was in speech therapy but was actually ready to be released, we had him on consult for his first year there and released his second year.
You should have an EFMP coordinator on base, at the family service center or army community service center (depends on the service what it is called). These folks will act as an advocate for you with the school, you can go and talk to them and they should be able to give you some guidance.
DODDS stands for Dept of Defense Dependents Schools for those of you not military.
I hope this helps some.
Amy
Hi, 1pucky.
Maybe it varies state to state but my younger child is listed both. I feel this is better because then the school needs to address both.
Have you considered having a parent advocate from your area either go with you to the meeting or prep you for it?
Barb