Hi everyone! I’ve just had my 10 yr old son evaluated by our psychologist. They did quite a few tests and found “processing deficits evidenced by weaknesses in the academic achievemnt areas of math reasoning and written expression.” FINALLY the light has come on for me. I have researched NLD for days now and he fits the bill. How do I get the school, who by the way has the opinion that he is lazy and a trouble maker due to social blunders and a shutdown on writing assignments, to agree with me that he does have NLD and get him some help THIS YEAR so maybe middle school won’t be so terrible. I feel like the second I walk into the meeting they are gonna give me the “yeah, right, sure we believe you but…” Honestly, I’ve seen enough of their butts to last a lifetime. :lol:
Re: NEW, NEED ADVICE, INTIMIDATED BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS
My suggestion is to request an IEP meeting and go well prepared. Bring all testing data and any other reports that may be useful. Did the psychologist confirm NLD? You may want to get a good neuropsychological assessment with someone familar with NLD. In addition, you might want to consider hiring an advocate to sit-in at the IEP meeting. Ideally advocates are there to help insure that your child gets needed services and are not intimidated by school administrators. Sometimes educational psychologists and even neuropsychologists can be hired as advocates.
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thanks for both your responses. I have found an advocate in my neck of the woods. What I could really use help finding now is an educational psychologist.
Re: NEW, NEED ADVICE, INTIMIDATED BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS
If I could suggest just two things to make the school personnel treat you with just a tad more dignity than they might otherwise do (and believe me things can indeed get rough in an IEP), it would be to take along a “friendly face” to sit “in your corner” and to tape record the meeting in its entirety. In order to tape you will probably need to give them 3 days advance notice of intent to tape
For a more in depth description of what I mean, please see teh following link:
http://www.danasview.net/iepproc.htm
Good luck to you!
What State is this?
It sounds like what my daughter has which is CAPD or APD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder or Auditory Processing Disorder).
I was able to take my daughter to the local university and have her tested by an audiologist.
You might call a local university and ask if they have a speech/language department. This was very helpful because they did the tests and she went for therapy also.
It is very frustrating when you know something is wrong and doors are slammed in your face.
My daughter was diagnosed when she was in 1st grade and I am still fighting with the school to accommodate her disability (she is in 11th grade now).
Remember that you are fighting for what is fair for your child. Do not let the school personnel intimidate you. If you can get the proof from outside sources and show the school. **I’ve always had limited funds and since insurance doesn’t cover testing the local university was able to help me.
Best of luck to you and your son.
Get the records from your psychologist and give them to the school. If he’s going to a public school they should have a school psychologist and you can request that the school psychologist test him also. They can place him in resource for the areas he needs help in and hopefully that will help. My child unfortunatly did not have much luck in resource so we are sending him to a private school to get him the help he needs this year so that when he starts middle school he will be on track and hopefully caught up with the other students and won’t have to be in resource. You are going to have to be strong and stand up for your child to get him the help he need and very much deserves. Don’t let them lable him as lazy when he does have a specific problem. Keep us updated and let us know how he does.
Amanda