{"id":3694,"date":"2010-09-13T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:10:41","slug":"i-dont-get-it-my-son-has-3-classrooms-but-only-needs-to-hear-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/i-dont-get-it-my-son-has-3-classrooms-but-only-needs-to-hear-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Get It &#8211; My Son Has 3 Classrooms, but Only Needs to Hear in One?"},"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=\"I%20Don%27t%20Get%20It%20-%20My%20Son%20Has%203%20Classrooms%2C%20but%20Only%20Needs%20to%20Hear%20in%20One%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/assist.tech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>My child has a cochlear implant. His IEP states that the school will provide a sound field system in his primary educational classroom. This year in 6th grade, they move between three classrooms, so we requested two more systems.\u00a0 The school said they would not do this because of budget.\u00a0 My question is what is considered &#8220;primary educational classroom&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Primary means &#8220;first&#8221; or &#8220;most important,&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary.&#8221; But knowing the definition of primary is not really the answer to your question.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A More Important Issue &#8211; Your Child&#8217;s Needs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As your son gets older and his school environment and classroom setting change, so do his needs. That is why IDEA allows for review and revision of the IEP, in order to accommodate your child&#8217;s unique needs.<\/p>\n<p>In elementary school, your child remained in one classroom, his primary educational classroom, so the school was able to meet his needs using one sound field system.<\/p>\n<p>If the IEP says the school will provide a sound field system in his &#8220;primary educational classroom&#8221;, which class that would be will be in 6th grade? How will the school determine which of the 3 classrooms would be the &#8220;primary&#8221; classroom?<\/p>\n<p>Your son will be required to move between three different classrooms, but only needs to hear in one of those rooms?<\/p>\n<p>If he needs a sound field system to learn, then he needs it in all classrooms.\u00a0 If he needs the system in one classroom, it is illogical to say he does not need it in the other classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>You need to write a short letter to document what the school told you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> they cannot provide the system in all classrooms because of cost.<\/li>\n<li> they will only provide the system in the primary educational classroom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ask what they mean when they refer to the &#8220;primary educational classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than likely, once the school has to put it in writing, the answer to your question will be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My child has a cochlear implant. His IEP states that the school will provide a sound field system in his primary educational classroom. This year in 6th grade, they move <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/i-dont-get-it-my-son-has-3-classrooms-but-only-needs-to-hear-in-one\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[429],"tags":[654,655,1321,656,121],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistive-technology","tag-cochlear-implants","tag-dhh","tag-letters","tag-sound-field-systems","tag-unique-needs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}