My child is a inclusioned student of a small home town school. My resources are 20 years behind. He has all listed above, he’s in the 5th grade and can barely read, I have been fussing for years to help him and now I found out it is dyslexia, I am going to an IEP meeting and I need to know what all to ask for to help him, I will take it all the way to due process if I have to, I have read the statistics of people with his condition and I want to help him the best I can but I don’t know what he needs can I please get some guidance on what I need to make the school give him because I have to fight to get what he needs as it is.
Re: parent of a dyslexic, capd and adhd child, need expert a
Kim,
I am a reading tutor and the mother a dyslexic son.
You need to:
1st get copies of everything the school has. All of the test that
they have done. copy of your parent rights. copy of everything!!
Put it into a big 3 ring binder.
ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS AND TAKE NOTES ON THE IEP MEETING…..
2nd talk to your son about what is going on with him. Help him understand that with your help and some help at school, thing can be ok.
3rd INSIST on some one on one tutoring for your son. A program like Reading Recovery will be great.
The IEP meeting can be nerve racking but go into them with the attitude that “WE ARE GOING TO BE PROACTIVE” and not just bandaide the problem.
A couple of web sites for you to check out are
www.interdys.org
www.dyslexia.com
and of course ldonline.com
Sure hope this helps some. I have been there done that. When I go into an IEP meeting with a big 3 ring binder loaded, we get results.
Good Luck, Julie
Re: parent of a dyslexic, capd and adhd child, need expert a
There are others who are better able to give good advice on this than me but if it were me, I’d want him to have one on one work with a reading specialist every single day.
Re: parent of a dyslexic, capd and adhd child, need expert a
Kim,
I am a reading tutor and the mother a dyslexic son.
You need to:
1st get copies of everything the school has. All of the test that
they have done. copy of your parent rights. copy of everything!!
Put it into a big 3 ring binder.
ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS AND TAKE NOTES ON THE IEP MEETING…..
2nd talk to your son about what is going on with him. Help him understand that with your help and some help at school, thing can be ok.
3rd INSIST on some one on one tutoring for your son. A program like Reading Recovery will be great.
The IEP meeting can be nerve racking but go into them with the attitude that “WE ARE GOING TO BE PROACTIVE” and not just bandaide the problem.
A couple of web sites for you to check out are
www.interdys.org
www.dyslexia.com
and of course ldonline.com
Sure hope this helps some. I have been there done that. When I go into an IEP meeting with a big 3 ring binder loaded, we get results.
Good Luck, Julie
There are others who are better able to give good advice on this than me but if it were me, I’d want him to have one on one work with a reading specialist every single day.