Does This IEP Make Sense? What should I ask for?

Hello The district I live in, but not the district my child is enrolled in, will not move forward with an IEP meeting. We did a Zoom call under the impression that it was the IEP meeting. When we went to it, they said that they will not have the official IEP meeting until our child is enrolled in their school. We did not get a report or assessment, IEP draft nothing. This does not seem right. Even if our son does not go to a school in the district, aren't they legally obligated to fulfill the IEP meeting and do a report/assessment themselves? My son is in a private school and the district there did the assessment and stated he has a disability and qualifies…

Question: How do you interpret your child’s progress data from their IEP? Any tips or tools that have helped you understand it better?

Hi everyone, thank you so much for reading this question. I have a new student in our school who was identified as twice exceptional, gifted in math, and on an IEP for dyslexia, dysgraphia. The student has a decoding goal on his IEP from his previous school and his advocate wants us to add a fluency goal as well. As we are getting to know the student, we are also planning for his annual review. In his beginning of the year assessment he scored in the 95th percentile for overall reading, and after some additional data collection, he decoded three syllable words with all six syllable types, placed two years above his grade in reading comprehension and is one year ahead…

I must preface this with some background. A local elementary school is getting upgraded. As in, it has been torn and is currently being rebuilt. The students were bused to a few other schools in the district. Torn-Down school was situated in such a way in the community that it did not require a bussing program. Now, a neighbor of mine is in a pickle. Her background: her child is in special education, and she preferred the program at another school, to be called School B, not the aforementioned torn-down school that her child is assigned to. I believe there was some IEP agreement to this, but it seems it was mostly her choice to fight for a boundary exemption. Because…

Hello community, I have been looking for IEP support advocates and groups for a long time now. The question I want to ask is why would a students school/IEP team reject over and over providing a student with full Support who is currently receiving itinerary or supplementary support. Even though they have been struggling consistently. Rejecting the request of the family and child when performance and records show serious struggle.

Can specific accommodations/modifications be removed due to average performance on psych/educational testing for reevaluation/eligibility. Student is still eligible for sped services under Orthopedic Impairment (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy). My son just started 6th grade but has had an IEP since PreK. I was told that some of his current accommodations/modifications will be taken away because of his average test scores. This would include use of calculator, testing setting, math aids, etc. Fatigue and energy conservation have always been areas of concern. He also has ADHD. I thought accommodations are based on need determined by the entire IEP team (including myself) …

My son has level 3 autism and is functionally non-verbal. I discovered over the summer that the SLP and Sped teacher basically stopped providing my son's services right before spring break. I have documented proof that he missed 15 hours of speech therapy. I don't have any physical proof about the missed SPED pull outs, but my son's general ed teacher and his para have both told me that he missed a significant amount of SPED last school year. We had an IEP meeting to request compensatory education, and the school agreed to that. I brought along my father-in-law (an attorney who is not in practice) and my son's former ABA consultant. My husband is an administrator in anoth…

I was googling compensatory services and came across Lisa's website where she said, "Bottom line is this. You, as the parent, have to initiate an action of some kind. And start the comp ed discussion. It is very unlikely that a school district is ever going to say, “Hey, we f*cked up. Here, have some comp ed for your trouble.” That sounded about right to me, but the weirdest thing happened at the end of last year though and my school system basically said exactly that 🤔 What happened in a nutshell, was that the SLP had to go on medical leave midway through the year and they weren't able to find another SLP to replace her. Toward the end of the school year, I got an …

Hello - my daughter is going into second grade. We had her annual meeting at the end of May and her Sped teacher put a 2:1 Teaching Assistant in her IEP for next year. This was for both safety (due to elopement) and academics as she needs everything broken down, a lot of repetition, and refocusing. The second grade classroom also has less adult support than the first grade room. We discussed this in my daughter's meeting and agreed to it for next year. I just received the final copy in the mail and the section regarding the 2:1 teaching assistant is no longer in the IEP. The PWN states that there will be a Sped teaching assistant in the classroom when the Sped teach…

hello at the end of last school year my daughter was approved for a 40 day extended evaluation. over the summer i signed off on sending her info to 4 "local" collaborative programs our district is part of. i heard from 2 and toured them. one of them was over 30 minutes from my house and they spent 20 minutes with me and was like "there's the parking lot bye!" The one 2 miles from my house spent an hour and a half with me and went over a lot of stuff with me. In the meantime the farther away one "accepted" my daughter and notified my school district. I replied to my contact at my home school district and asked about the two i hadnt heard from, expressing th…

Our AuDHD 15 yr old (they/them) finally got an IEP last year. However, it wasn't successful and they ended up missing most of the last part of the year, even on a shortened day. We had umpteen IEP meetings, mediation, and are now in Due Process. I understand that we should theoretically be in 'stay put' for the IEP. However, with the school refusal last year, the school sent a PWN removing services because our son hadn't attended school in 10 days. We argued against that and the resolution was to re-enroll for the last ~9 days of school. We are currently in a dispute about placement (residential treatment vs private) and working with an attorney who I'll also talk to abo…

First time posting. If I am doing this wrong please lmk and I will fix. 👍🏻 In PA: 1) What is the definition of an eligibility meeting or what constitutes an eligibility meeting? 2) What does my signature on the sig page for the evaluation report represent? 3) At what specific point in the process is the District required to send a NOREP to parents indicating eligibility for special Ed and related services? Where can I find all of this language in law or policy?

If a parent wants to opt out services on an IEP that is already in place dated 10/23/2023 to attend private school, will the IEP still be good the following year? This is the state of Kansas

In Pennsylvania. My daughter had a credit recovery course this summer for Geometry. This was not ESY, this was credit recovery. She failed the credit recovery also. For a little background, this was her second credit recovery course she has had to take for a core subject (last year it was Biology and she scraped by with the lowest D). What are some things suggested to: one, have her retake this course again to understand and pass. Can I request it has to be in-person and not online ?(online is the only option for credit recovery in our district) And two, I would like to have her re-evaluated before her three years is due (spring 2025). What should I ask for in her…

Hi! I need help. Long story as short as possible: -Son has Autism, ADHD, and an IEP with annual meeting due July 20th. -Son’s behavior plan not followed 2 years ago causing aggression, and other behaviors to progress. More restrictive level 4 school with no neurotypical students, but more staff training in holds, etc. and special ed. was recommended, Pandemic hit, son transferred in the fall. -Son at more restrictive level 4 school (A) for 2 years. Meds not working well, being transported to planning room spending 2 hours or sometimes more if he fell asleep in there (many times without direct supervision-now per law has to always be under direct superv…

Hello a friend of mine has a son starting Kindergarten in the Fall. Her son needs speech services. The principal told her that they could give speech services without an IEP. Is that true? She's in Colorado.

My case manager of IFSP called to talk about sons future transition at age 3. They said that his service options based on experience of other meetings would be 1) privately drive my child to school for his speech services. Which due to family situation cannot be done. 2) attend a private daycare system where they will arrange speech services or 3) continue his speech services, but pay independently. I thought FAPE is responsibility of LEA, so there should be discussion of transportation there or other options. Is there law that says age three parents need to transport for FAPE services?

Hi everyone and thank you for reading this. I have a student, B, who was in kindergarten and part of 1st grade in in-person school. He was diagnosed with Autism by Children's Hospital, but for the first year of school his eligibility fell under ADHD. The parents paid for additional testing, asked for a reevaluation in first grade and his eligibility changed to Autism. During his year and 3/4 or so in school he was put in holds continuously, placed in isolation, and written up as a sexual predator because of sensory processing needs he was seeking. The parents took him out and I homeschooled him along with his grandmother who is a retired teacher. He's doing wel…

Reading Specialist. My daughter was required one this year. It was written in her IEP. They didn't have one at the beginning of the school year. I wrote an email and expressed how they are in violation of her IEP and there could be legal action taken. It wasn't until March that they hired someone. I just found out recently, that it is a gen ed teacher. Not only that, it was written in the IEP to use The Wilson method as the reading program but they are using UFLI as the reading program. Also, they are trying their hardest to cram all the sessions in ESY. She only goes half day. In the meeting, it was mentioned that comp services don't have to be compensated 1:1. Lastly,…

I was hoping someone could help me find where to look for answers about who is responsible for getting things done over the summer? Current situation: In April, at an IEP meeting, I requested in-home training evaluation Evaluation was completed and delivered ONE DAY AFTER school ended for summer. Evaluation clearly finds that the student is not getting appropriate support in home setting and training is recommended Student was NOT recommended for ESY because he was doing so well in school setting NOW student is home for entire summer in the setting where he has support needs I requeste…

We all signed the paperwork agreeing that our student needed to be evaluated last November. The testing finally started in February and an initial IEP meeting was scheduled for mid March. They didn’t allow enough meeting time and started late, so we did not get through the IEP. Apparently the follow up meeting was scheduled for late April; the district staff all showed up, but they forgot to notify the family! They added several district administrators to the team, which makes scheduling more complicated; the second half of the initial IEP meeting was re-scheduled for mid May. We requested an outside facilitator. We made a point of asking the state if they could i…

Had my IEP meeting and my kiddo's teacher was not let in via Google meet to the IEP meeting. It's unethical but is it legal? Any reason why they wouldn't want her there?

Our district is requiring staff to use specific language in our child's IEP. When I asked the teacher what the difference was between a "support person" and a 1:1, she said she wasn't sure but that's the direction they were receiving from the central office. For example, our son has a "support person" written into his IEP for any time he pushes into Gen Ed or attends anything outside of his self-contained classroom, but a classmate specifically has a 1:1. What's the difference? Is this just legal language that allows anyone to fill in as a warm body vs someone trained to help the student?

Several weeks ago and again within the past few weeks, I found it necessary to file administrative complaints with the state Department of Education regarding what I now refer to as deliberate indifference pertaining to the continued struggle to ensure that the most basic of our student's IEP accommodations were consistently implemented. Our child has a 3.85 gpa and is ranked in the top ten percentile of his class. That would assuredly warrant an academic achievement award, right??? 🤔 For the first time in four years, the answer is a resounding No! Mea culpa? So disappointing...

Hello. My daughter is 6 yrs old in first grade. She is diagnosed with severe autism and ID. She keeps getting hurt at school. First there was an incident where they said a kid ran into her. She came home with swollen black eye. Second she swallowed a ballon, and most recent she smashed her finger and hit her head. she is non verbal she cannot tell me what is really happening. I’m at a loss I don’t feel she is safe at school. I almost don’t want to send her back. Any advice will be greatly appreciated it. thank you