Re: Extended school year issues on IEP

[Guest guest]

--- You wrote:

I am looking for suggestions and help for getting ESY for our

daughter.

She would most certainly benefit from speech therapy all summer

long, and school too.

What have other parents done to argue for it?

--- end of quote ---

Hi - the key to getting summer services is to prove that your daughter

will lose ground if she doesn't continue services during the summer. As weird

as it sounds, saying she'll continue to improve during the summer doesn't work

- you have to show she'll slide back without it.

My older son - who is in 5th grade (which is the last elementary grade here -

gulp!) will have summer services for the first time in a long time for that

very reason. We all feel that he has a great foundation in writing and would

slide back if he doesn't continue this summer.

Good luck!

Barbara

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Barbara Mellert

Manager, Social Science Computing

Kiewit Computing Services

Dartmouth College

13A Silsby Hall; HB 6121

Hanover NH 03755

Telephone: 603/646-2877

URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ssc

[Guest guest]

<<I am looking for suggestions and help for getting ESY for our

daughter.

She would most certainly benefit from speech therapy all summer

long, and school too.

What have other parents done to argue for it?>>

If you can somehow prove that your daughter's progress will regress without

therapy over the summer, that would be your best argument. Have there been any

times where she's had to go without services for a few weeks (Christmas break,

previous summers) and lost ground? I'm not sure about school districts in other

states but ours usually requires that the need for services be demonstrated in

this manner. There has to be a strong likelihood that the child will regress

without services.

Have you done a search on the Listen-up site? I'm certain there will be some

suggestions there.

Carol

[Guest guest]

<<I am looking for suggestions and help for getting ESY for our

daughter.

She would most certainly benefit from speech therapy all summer

long, and school too.

What have other parents done to argue for it?>>

If you can somehow prove that your daughter's progress will regress without

therapy over the summer, that would be your best argument. Have there been any

times where she's had to go without services for a few weeks (Christmas break,

previous summers) and lost ground? I'm not sure about school districts in other

states but ours usually requires that the need for services be demonstrated in

this manner. There has to be a strong likelihood that the child will regress

without services.

Have you done a search on the Listen-up site? I'm certain there will be some

suggestions there.

Carol

[Guest guest]

<<I am looking for suggestions and help for getting ESY for our

daughter.

She would most certainly benefit from speech therapy all summer

long, and school too.

What have other parents done to argue for it?>>

If you can somehow prove that your daughter's progress will regress without

therapy over the summer, that would be your best argument. Have there been any

times where she's had to go without services for a few weeks (Christmas break,

previous summers) and lost ground? I'm not sure about school districts in other

states but ours usually requires that the need for services be demonstrated in

this manner. There has to be a strong likelihood that the child will regress

without services.

Have you done a search on the Listen-up site? I'm certain there will be some

suggestions there.

Carol