It sounds like my child is not qualifying for SLD because of her WIAT scores even though it puts her a couple years behind, and is not qualifing because of the IQ test because the full scale is 87,so that leaves the speech is the only thing that is qualifying her. Is there a chance that that might change? The speech pathologist also suggested getting an outside speech pathologist for the apraxia. What is it that they would be able to do for her now? According to the WISC-IV the low areas were :
verbal comprehension
similarities 5
comprehension 4
working memory
digit span 4
let-num sequence 6
arithmetic 7
The other interesting thing is when they did the BRIEF test I was the only one that saw that my child had a problem with working memory,organization, and self monitoring. Special ed only saw the self monitoring problem while the regular classroom did not see any problem at all. Seems to me if she was in a reg class all the time she’d fall thru the cracks because no one would see her difficulties.
I wonder if they are using the mental age game...
The district I took to Due process uses that…to not qualify kids for speech…and if they only have one area they are low in and everything else tests out within the 85 to 115 range of average…they won’t qualify… In other words…the way they qualify is they have to have scores below 7% to qualify…in speech assessments and it truly depends on the speech path…how willing she is to work with you and it sounds to me like she is trying to pass her off…onto someone else..
Re: Qestion on speech and staying qualified for IEP coverage
Thanks to you all, I have refused the IEP because of the reading issues. They will be bringing in a reading specialist to talk with the speech therapist about what to do next year for 6th grade, so everything is up in the air till October. It sounds like from Patti’s description that she will still have IEP coverage since she is under the 7 % in sentence formation.We will see if they change their tune in October. The speech pathologist response of my getting an outside speech therapist for the apraxia was because the psychologist asked her if my child was her child what would she do? The speech pathologist seems like she sees my child’s difficulty and wants to make sure we not only remediate but also go beyond because she is capable.She also wants to work with the learning support to make an effective program. But I am concerned about the great concern she is placing on the apraxia issue and not wanting to address the fluency, and saying my daughter needs to move on using read along books instead of intense instruction which I told them she needed..
Those low points are ones that are important for succeeding in school (more so than some of the “do the cute puzzle” ones); that short term memory and working memory from the “Arithmetic” and “working memory” and the understanding of social behaviors of Comprehension mean you’re right, the regular classroom is gong to be a real challenge for her.
It can be really hard to get help for “shadow kids” — the ones who score 80-90 on the IQ test. See if you can get hold of t heir policies and find out all the different ways ….