The Wrightslaw Way

I’m a sped teacher with a child who has an IEP. The IEP team agreed that my child’s progress in Math will be measured with the KeyMath test. When the school last administered the KeyMath test, her scores dropped! The school wasn’t concerned. They said “No change is good.” It is not good news when […]

My child is a freshman in high school. Her IEP includes this goal and objectives. Judy will improve reading comprehension skills by using graphic organizers to access the curriculum with 70% accuracy per quarter. The short term objectives are: 1. Judy will summarize or bullet important information in a variety of reading material with 70% […]

At a training many years ago, I heard that if a parent requested evaluation data be graphed, the school needed to provide the graphed data.   A graph of data is much easier to interpret than a written narrative.  Are schools required to graph data for parents? There is no legal requirement that schools must graph […]