IEP's

Although the school may not want to rewrite the IEP when the school year is so close to concluding, you do have the right to request adaptations. As for next year, if your son is required to have an IEP, then the school better see that one is written. If this doesn’t happen, contact your school system’s superintendent’s office. If you don’t get satisfaction there, go to your state’s superintendent of schools for help.

I was also told by someone on this message board that the Learning Disabilities Association will provide an advocate for you at no charge.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
-Marcie

on their anniversary date. So, if it cimes due in October, then that is when the annual meeting is. However, you may request an IEP meeting at any time- as can the school.

If you can get as specific as possible and basically do their work for them, so that all they have to do is sign it, you might squeeze it into their overscheduled days. So if he needs it in the IEP that somebody — anybody, teacher, peer, janitor (well, okay, something that won’t be an embarrassment) — will give him a nudge to get stuff turned in at a certain point or points in the day, and you can specify the challenging stuff he needs, and basically, if nothing else works, make them realize you will find a way to use up more of their time persuading them to meet than they would spend meeting, it could happen.

Your other alternative is to do whatever you have to to meet with his teachers before school starts next year so that he can *start* the year, for crying out loud, with expectations and structure in place. This “let’s see how it goes” idea can sound great… but it is *amazing* how much better our kids do when they start the year out with a plan in place that’s consistently implemented. Self-advocacy sometimes even becomes a reality.

Robin,

My son’s IEP was written last December. At that time, I agreed to have him continue in resource room for math. He actually is very good conceptually but the program in the regular classroom didn’t have enough repetition for his memory issues and relied a lot on reading which he didn’t have down.

If we have his reading up to snuff by fall, I think he might be able to handle it. What do I have to do to change his placement?

He also has reading goals which he has already passed (we pulled him partially out of school and have been teaching him at home because of disagreements with the school over methodology—long story). He has ended up in resource room because of scheduling conflicts at home for a few days and he is a good six months ahead of the class he was placed into. Do I ask them to reevaluate him or what?

Beth

Call an IEP meeting. You have the right to do that at any time. If they shuffle around about it- and some schools do- then do it in writing. I might wait until Spetember though, since some of the changes you are looking to make are dependant on what happens over the summer.

He does not need to be tested again per se- but someone does need to so whatever it is you agreed to do to see if he met his goals. Sometimes that means testing. If you are looking to exit him from Spec. Ed, that mean an evaluation- but may not involve comrehensive assessment- though it almost always does. Good luck- it sounds like you and he are doing well.

> Robin
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Thanks for the help. He is doing much better than he would have done in resource room but we’re certainly not there yet.

I don’t know if I want him declassified. He has CAPD and I am not sure if I totally understand the implications of it. I keep reading of kids who read fine but still seem to be having lots of problems. We don’t have the reading fine yet so I feel like I don’t even know what might be around the next bend.

Can I keep him classified and yet out of resource room? If he can’t keep up without it next year, we will need to find another school because the teacher just isn’t very good (and she is the only one). I don’t want to close any doors prematurely.

Beth

I would not declassify him yet.
Yes you can always change his placement, you are the parent!!!

Always follow a request with a letter!!