Guest guest Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 My son is up for re-evaluation in August, but they want to do it before the end of the school year this year. I don't agree. Is there any way to keep them from doing the re-evaluation before August? Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 You have to sign consent for them to re-evaluate him. Don't sign the paperwork if you don't want him assessed prior to August. However, if you wait until August to sign the paperwork, they will be in a time crunch to re-evaluate your son. They are not going to want to be out of compliance timeline wise. Also, if you wait, then he will have a rushed re-evaluation (so they can meet the timeline of an August re-eval) and then you won't have a good picture of where he is functioning. Just a few things to think about! Kristi Anne wrote: My son is up for re-evaluation in August, but they want to do it before the end of the school year this year. I don't agree. Is there any way to keep them from doing the re-evaluation before August? Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 You have a good point. I just think it would be more accurate after the summer, because all the interventions they are using in Pre-K are working and his teacher says he has gotten to the point that on any given day you could walk in and not tell he is different than any other kid, and I think after a summer of being at home, he will show more of the behaviors that he does here that I am concerned about. I think if they do an evaluation now, they are going to come back with what a " normal " kid he is and dismiss him from special services. And then next year when he's in kindergarten and doesn't have a picture schedule, or prewarning of changes, or have the teacher walk next to him when they leave the room, I just have a bad feeling about what's going to happen. Anne -- Re: Re-evaluation question You have to sign consent for them to re-evaluate him. Don't sign the paperwork if you don't want him assessed prior to August. However, if you wait until August to sign the paperwork, they will be in a time crunch to re-evaluate your son. They are not going to want to be out of compliance timeline wise. Also, if you wait, then he will have a rushed re-evaluation (so they can meet the timeline of an August re-eval) and then you won't have a good picture of where he is functioning. Just a few things to think about! Kristi Anne wrote: My son is up for re-evaluation in August, but they want to do it before the end of the school year this year. I don't agree. Is there any way to keep them from doing the re-evaluation before August? Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Although my son had a speech delay, I still believe he has Aspergers, because he had ear trouble until he was 2, which we didn't know about. Once he started talking, it was like flood gates had opened. And now he does have that mannerism that he can't tell if the listener is not interested in what he has to say, he just keeps talking. I am more concerned with his safety than anything else. He is a runner, and he has no sense of stranger danger, and I worry about him disappearing when no one is watching. He's 5 years old, and last night I was doing MY algebra homework, and he was sitting on my lap. I asked him what 27 + 32 was, and HE KNEW THE ANSWER. And it's not the first time I have asked him a question like that, one day we were counting money I asked him what 25 plus 25 was, and he got that right too. Exceptionally intelligent, no sense of danger. It's really, really scary. Anne P.S. Yahoo must be having problems, because I am way behind on receiving mail in my inbox. Never received this one in the first place. > > Hmmmmm, well it seems that school define Asperger's differently than the DSM > IV. By definition, a child has autism, regardless of the IQ that he > eventually develops, when the condition manifest before the age of 3 AND > there is a speech delay impairment in communicative ability, impairment in > social relatednes (interactions), excessive rigidity in routine (which is > usually accompanied by unusual use of objects). Asperger's has NO speech > delay--in fact these children talk and have always talked excessively. > Words are their lifeline. There have been studies looking at kids with > " high functioning " autism and Asperger's and can't really find too much > difference between the two. To really tell the difference may be splitting > hairs. > > According to IDEA, if a child has a disability that adversely affects > academic performance, then the child qualifies under IDEA and needs an IEP. > So the question needs to be, does the child have a disability? Well, the > school psychologist seemed to think that he had a disability. Does this > disability impair his ability to learn and his academic performance? Then > he needs re-evals and IEPs. > > Also, there is going to be a slaw boot camp in Austin in August. I > HIGHLY recommend that you go if you've had to fight them this hard for three > years. It sounds like things might be getting to a crisis and you need to > nip it before it gets that far. > S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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