Evaluations: SCHOOL DELAYS RE-EVALUATION
Marie: After multiple written requests and 2 IEP meetings to verbalize our written request, we want a re-evaluation of my child and his IEP. I’m told the school has 6 Continue Reading →
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Teacher Issues: NON IEP TEACHER MEETINGS-
Franscheska: Before school started I requested a meeting with my son’s new regular ed teacher. She said give her a week or two. I have asked three times now and Continue Reading →
Teacher Issues: CAN WE CHANGE TEACHERS?
Maria: My son has an IEP, he is having trouble with his teacher. He is borderline ODD, we have requested to change teachers. The school keeps telling me no. How Continue Reading →
Taking Away Recess as Punishment – Find A Better Way
My sixth grade son, 12, is diagnosed ADHD with anxiety. His current IEP does not include ADHD, only another disability. He has difficulty finishing his homework. The school takes away Continue Reading →
Parent Observation in the Classroom? Yes!
To paraphrase Jane Austen… it is a truth universally acknowledged that parental involvement supports positive student outcomes. But does ‘parental involvement’ extend to parents coming into the school to observe Continue Reading →
Socially & Developmentally Behind. Should We Retain?
My 11-year-old son, grade 5, is behind a little socially. He has no real friends who seek him out or invite him over. He says he wants to be in Continue Reading →
Wake Up Folks! You are Being Sold a Line of Goods about Dyslexia
Ok. I am going on a rant here and I expect some kickback. Before you tell me how wrong I am, please remember that I have been advocating for almost Continue Reading →
Our Neuro-psych Never Told Me He Would NOT Be the Evaluator!
I paid for a private neuropsychological evaluation. The doctor ‘never told me’ that he would not be the one testing. I was surprised when a school psychologist who works with Continue Reading →
Testing Accommodations for ACT and SAT
My daughter’s evaluation results said, she “may experience difficulty in retrieving phonological information from long-term or permanent memory, as well as difficulty executing a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly.” Continue Reading →
Can We Hear a Little about What Teachers Have to Deal With?
I’m responding to a request from a special education teacher who asked if I would “tell our side of it.” She wrote: Teachers are getting more and more students who Continue Reading →
