IEP Suggestions Please

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Hello All

Looking for some suggestion here. My son's IEP is coming up soon. He is a

first grader. As many of the kids on the spectrum do, he is a good reader but struggles with the comprehension piece. And struggles means really struggles will not answer 1 qs from the teacher. Part of it is that he is going through a phase of no reading - its not a preferred activity at all. Anyways, when he did summer school this year the teacher assessed his independent reading level as E as

per the scale the school district uses and now the sp. ed teacher says that she has to start at Level A so that means going back to the first set of books again and work on comprehension. Should I be telling that she should carry forward from where he is at in the summer because there

is no regression of skills as such.I do not feel comfortable in going back again and repeating those books that have like 2 words per page.

Abt. comprehension how have you tackled that in IEP's. I feel that my son responds to written comprehension worksheets rather than answering verbally. Should I be requesting that

And also comprehension ranges from answering WH Qs, problem solvng, sequencing, inferring and I don't think so that my son can handle all of

it together if its presented randomly to him. I feel we should be going

step by step and then merging all.

Again should that be something I should be bringing up to the special ed

teacher and can that be a part of the IEP with a %age measure of success in each step?

The school district does not have a special guided reading program to address the comprehension piece as such , can I request them to consider

that?

Pls suggest

Thanks a lot

Smiti