{"id":20175,"date":"2021-12-16T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:57:05","slug":"can-a-school-deny-a-504-plan-requested-by-a-pediatrician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-school-deny-a-504-plan-requested-by-a-pediatrician\/","title":{"rendered":"Can School Refuse a 504 Plan After a Doctor&#8217;s Request?"},"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=\"Can%20School%20Refuse%20a%20504%20Plan%20After%20a%20Doctor%27s%20Request%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/brown.eyes_.girl_.600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/brown.eyes_.girl_.600-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Child's serious face\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/brown.eyes_.girl_.600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/brown.eyes_.girl_.600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My 7-year-old daughter is having anxiety attacks at school. She often has anxiety attacks during lunch in a large, noisy cafeteria. The cafeteria is not the only trigger for anxiety attacks; simply one example.<\/p>\n<p>Her pediatrician diagnosed her with an Anxiety Disorder. He wrote a letter to request a 504 plan.<\/p>\n<p>The school advised that they will &#8220;review the situation to see if a 504 plan is warranted&#8221;. If they decide my daughter is not entitled to a 504 plan, they will deny the doctor&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>The school did not contact the pediatrician about her anxiety problems or accommodations. Instead, they called a meeting of their &#8220;team&#8221; (teachers, speech therapist, nurse, guidance counselor, and principal) to determine if a 504 plan is &#8220;warranted.&#8221; They requested that I attend this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The school refused the doctor&#8217;s request for a 504 plan.\u00a0How is this possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 7-year-old daughter is having anxiety attacks at school. She often has anxiety attacks during lunch in a large, noisy cafeteria. The cafeteria is not the only trigger for anxiety <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-school-deny-a-504-plan-requested-by-a-pediatrician\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1351],"class_list":["post-20175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27057,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions\/27057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}