{"id":6267,"date":"2011-12-12T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:29:21","slug":"help-no-teachers-are-trained-to-work-with-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/help-no-teachers-are-trained-to-work-with-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! No Teachers are Trained to Work with my Son"},"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=\"Help%21%20No%20Teachers%20are%20Trained%20to%20Work%20with%20my%20Son\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My 10 year old son has Tourettes\/OCD.\u00a0 His teachers do not understand his disability and what he is going through in class.\u00a0 They have no idea about inner tics.\u00a0 Their main concern is proper position of words on a page. They are not trained to effectively work with him or teach him. His IEP meeting is in a week, what do I do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you do? Turn to what IDEA says about support and training for school personnel.<\/p>\n<p>IDEA envisions services that are provided to the parents or teachers of a child with a disability to help them to more effectively work with the child \u2013 that\u2019s why \u201csupports for school personnel\u201d was included in this section of the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Supports for School Personnel<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This does not just mean participation in normal inservice training that all teachers get \u2013 but targeted directly on assisting the teacher to meet a unique and specific need of the child.<\/p>\n<p>The school may need to bring in an outside expert in TS to train the teacher and provide consultation services about how TS affects your child.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This training or support for the teacher must be written in the IEP \u2013 clearly designating who will train, when, how much, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So do your research and be prepared when you meet to revise the IEP.<\/p>\n<p>You will find answers in Chapter 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/aaieps.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw: All About IEPs<\/span><\/a> and your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/selaw2.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw Special Education Law book<\/span><\/a> \u2013 20 U.S.C. 1414(d)(1)(A) and the federal regulations 34 C.F.R. 300.320(a)(4).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tools for Effective Advocacy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will also want to use your best advocacy skills when you meet with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Use the Colombo \/ Miss Manners approach instead of \u201cinsisting\u201d that the teachers are \u201cclueless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Review all the advocacy strategies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/feta.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Susan Bardet says &#8220;<strong>By making sufficient use of support for school personnel and parent training, IEP teams can use the tools provided by IDEA to help children succeed<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to do this, be sure to read this article by Susan \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/articles\/support.bardet.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Support For School Personnel and Parent Training: Often Overlooked Keys To Success<\/span><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/articles\/support.bardet.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/articles\/support.bardet.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 10 year old son has Tourettes\/OCD.\u00a0 His teachers do not understand his disability and what he is going through in class.\u00a0 They have no idea about inner tics.\u00a0 Their <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/help-no-teachers-are-trained-to-work-with-my-son\/\">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":[18,136,161],"tags":[1299,41,846,845],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ieps","category-strategies","category-teachers","tag-ieps","tag-parental-rights","tag-support-for-school-personnel","tag-teacher-training-in-the-iep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","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=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}