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]

Can the hearing impaired teacher your child is working with help with getting

ESY services? I mentioned that my daughter would benefit from summer program

and she did all the leg work. I would think since they work and understand the

child better they would be the ones advocating add'l services for the child.

Good luck.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/31/2004 8:43:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,

croadman@... writes:

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

daughter.

This answer is more for people just starting out with younger kids, but I

wanted to put it out there while this was a topic. When you have your very

first

IEP meeting, I would suggest asking at that time for extended school year

services. Maybe it's a coincidence, but based on things I had heard here, that

is what I did at Neal's transition IEP (transitioning from Early Intervention

to an IEP) and I had no fight at all. And since it was in the first IEP, they

so far just keep putting it into the follow-up ones. I think that once you

have a service, it's harder not to give it to you in a following year. Based on

what I've been told by some administators at other districts, it puts it more

on the district to justify taking the service away than on the parents to

jusify keeping it.

~Rhonda~

Mom to Audrey, 7, hearing & Neal, 4, CII 6-11-02

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/31/2004 8:43:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,

croadman@... writes:

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

daughter.

This answer is more for people just starting out with younger kids, but I

wanted to put it out there while this was a topic. When you have your very

first

IEP meeting, I would suggest asking at that time for extended school year

services. Maybe it's a coincidence, but based on things I had heard here, that

is what I did at Neal's transition IEP (transitioning from Early Intervention

to an IEP) and I had no fight at all. And since it was in the first IEP, they

so far just keep putting it into the follow-up ones. I think that once you

have a service, it's harder not to give it to you in a following year. Based on

what I've been told by some administators at other districts, it puts it more

on the district to justify taking the service away than on the parents to

jusify keeping it.

~Rhonda~

Mom to Audrey, 7, hearing & Neal, 4, CII 6-11-02

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Having now lived in 3 different states, I can tell you it is VERY

state law dependent. In California, we had no problem as it

was assumed that DHH kids would regress. In Texas you had

to prove severe regression (a tough standard we never met as

I would never let her regress even if I needed to pay out of pocket),

and now Massachusetts has a regression standard, but not as

severe that I was able to prove during the time she didn't have

CI habilitation support.

The best thing to do is contact others in your state and read your

state's laws on ESY.

Terri , Mother of Kathy, CII BTE Jan '02, future artist and Vet