{"id":19,"date":"2008-04-06T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-05-30T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T14:44:18","slug":"19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/19\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting a Child&#8217;s Unique Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Meeting%20a%20Child%27s%20Unique%20Needs\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Yesterday I received a great question from a parent in PA . After I responded, I was so pleased to hear her news &#8211; I&#8217;ve posted it below.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s her question.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is it legal for a school to say that a special education student who is promoted to 9th grade, MUST do the 9th grade curriculum even if the year before they were doing 3rd grade curriculum?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My answer was a definite NO.  I had a question of  my own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why is a 9th grader still functioning at a 3rd grade level?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school is  responsible for providing the child with an education that is tailored to his  unique needs and prepares him for further education, employment and independent  living. <!--more-->I don&#8217;t know enough about the facts in your case to comment specifically.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit just issued a ruling on  this issue in March. If you are dealing with this issue, you need to know more  about legal rights of children and their parents and the school&#8217;s legal  responsibilities.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This article is about a boy who has dyslexia and was functioning  academically at the 3rd grade level. Because the family was advocating for him,  the school retaliated by placing him in the 10th grade, with no support or  assistance &#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/art\/draper.aps.comped.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/art\/draper.aps.comped.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Appeals Court ordered the school to pay four years of compensatory  education in a private special education program so he could receive the  educational help he should have received earlier and that he needed to graduate  from high school. The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision in March  2008:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/08\/al.0310.draper.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/08\/al.0310.draper.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8211;Pam<\/p>\n<p>The following day I heard from her again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thank you for getting back to me.  My daughter (adopted) has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and a plethora of learning disabilities that fall under that spectrum.  We were told she would never read, but she is and she&#8217;s loving it!  We attribute her success to the public cyber charter school in which she is enrolled and to the opportunity for quality one on one instruction and extremely high quality and quantity of support services they provide for her. She is doing far better than the doctors and other experts ever thought she would be able to do.  We&#8217;ll get to 9th grade work one day at her own pace.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the best news I&#8217;d heard all day.<\/p>\n<p>This parent has found what her daughter needs and is seeing that she gets it.  She didn&#8217;t accept the idea that her child was unable to learn.  Her daughter just learns differently and needs high quality instruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I received a great question from a parent in PA . After I responded, I was so pleased to hear her news &#8211; I&#8217;ve posted it below. 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