Our IEP woes (was Re: regular vs. special needs preschool)

[Guest guest]

Miche I'm so sorry. I was skipping over the parts of your message

that were from my message inside your message and missed the points

that your child sees Deborah Hayden. And missed you were advised not

to take the situation public. You wrote

> > Our attorney has advised against contacting news of govt. My

> husband even

> > works at the local newspaper (in IT, not reporting) and has a

> friend

> > salivating to write our story, but in the past it has hurt in

> court to

> > pursue that kind of publicity. His other coworker who covers

the

> state

> > government has offered to hand deliver letters to our reps. We

> may still

> > go that way, but for the time our attorney advised against it.

Hurt how? - they will do something like misclassify your child and

tie you up with meeting after meeting for months on end while they

provide no placement or services at all...like what they are

doing now? Or you mean they'll get worse. What do they do then -

pay a child 25 bucks to beat your kid up while he plays T ball?

Trying to help your child hurts you in court...so you stay quiet and

wait for who? The " attorney " who's done nothing while all this

happens? This is who gives you the advice to stay quiet? (Who

does this attorney work for again?)

Can Deborah help you advocate? If nothing else she can help you

make sure your child has the appropriate diagnosis and appropriate

goals and therapy are written into the IEP. She can also help all

understand that your child's hesitation prior to following a command

may not necessarily be due to receptive delays, and can simply be

due to motor planning. Deborah is an apraxia expert.

You're child's in great hands with Deborah that's for sure!

But the quiet part. Squeeky wheels get the greese.

To me it sounds like too many have kept quiet. To me it sounds like

all the cards need to be on the table. But got to admit they're

doing a great job of keeping most quiet. (The kids that is)

Parents don't complain -kids can't complain.

Don't know what else to say -your situation is so out there that

again it's an insane situation.

Wish was able to jump in now. She'll be back soon.

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