hi this is polly
i haven’t been here in quite a while well i hav a five year old that the techer failed to refer for services. teacher waited until june to talk retention, well this is a long story i have since then transfered my children to another school district. no not because she referred her for retention. but for so many other reasons and issues, from this school. well her we are in the new school i have had a speech and language eval done outside the school. what do i do next, share this with the new school or get more testing done ? someone mentioned to me oncethe kluge eval, no one has heard of this eval.
i don’t wantto dragthis out any longer for her sake. already the teacher mentined nothing until last june before school ended, that left us running aroung looking for doctors, until one that was so booked up took pity on us and took her, after we explained the whole mess.
i also just read some information her on the board about idea that all schools must offer special education services to eligible 3-5 years olds with disabilities. no it has not been diagnosedthat she has a disability. she is a late birthday. the slp we took her tothinks that posibly she is just not mature enough and needs some growing. advise please i can be reached at the email address, just email away i need help with this.
Re: my 5 year old
Have them test her, call the school system and ask for test that is the only way you will know, if she is delayed they have to help her.
Re: my 5 year old
My now 8 year old son received services as a preschooling. You have to be classified as a preschooler with a disability. In his case, it was due to speech. We went through the process twice—the first time he did not qualify. Basically, he was not far enough behind. Six months later he qualified. We went to a children’s hospital and had an assessment done. Then we filled out paper work with the school district and they met to decide. We were there.
If your daughter is now in K (this was not clear from your post). she would not qualify for the preschool program, even though she is five.
I have given the school copies of tests done privately for my son. Sometimes they have used them to make decisions. Othertimes they have dismissed them. For example, my son was evaluated by a private OT. The school said those problems are medical not educational and thus we don’t have to do anything.
My impression is that they have to use them for qualifying a child unless they can ignore them because of the kind of reasoning I just mentioned. If they disagree with the findings, they can do their own testing.
REalize also that just because a child is having problems doesn’t mean they are bad enough to qualify. For example, my son doesn’t use language correctly. He never uses irregular verbs and he is eight among other things. The slt told me he is in the normal range. Now I don’t think so but from a testing perspective he is.
I forgotthe add my email address it is [email protected]