Hello,
I was wondering if anyone out there has been successful in getting one on one after school tutoring provided by the school?
I am also interested in extended school year services and if my nephew would qualify.
Here is a little background:
I have a nephew whom I am in the process of adopting, (children services currently has custody). He is going into the third grade. He does receive resource room for 3/4 of the day, but he still cannot read after a full year of resource room. He read 17 wpm in the Winter and 17 wpm in the spring…. to close out the year. They concentrated most of the year on reading only, so the other subjects were not hardly touched.
Nobody has ever formally tested this child, although he does receive services as a result of alot of subjective testing. Every proffesional I talk to.. tells me that the school is responsible for testing and services, that medicaid no longer covers educational testing, and that I need to contact the school. The resource teacher tells me that she is afraid for me to request testing by the school because she worries that he will not have a discrepency and therefore will be weened out of the current services.
I was able to and I am in the process of getting IQ testing and The weschler tests done, from an agency that tests children services children, for emotional analysis..Thinking that I could share the results out of the box with his resource teacher or at least have a handle on his IQ. His hearing and sight are both OK.
I have been working in the Reading Reflex over the summer, but my latest thinking is that I need to arrange for someone else to do his tutoring in the future…so that I can concentrate on just being mom and providing the emotional needs for him.What I found is that tutoring is very expensive and out of my reach financially. EVerytime I ask children services for help they say it is the schools responsibility.
I have also worked with child advocacy centers locally in the past and I actually knew more than they did..or they ended up being more so an ally for the school.
Back to my original question…..I was wondering if I am going to need someone to help me advocate for these services when the school year starts or if I can handle this on my own. I was also wondering if he would even be eligible for tutoring services in your opinion?
Any thoughts that come to mind about what to do would be appreciated. I am trying to create a plan for the new year.
Thanks,
MO