Re: Another IEP meeting from hell

May 23, 2007

April,

Sorry to hear you had a bad meeting. I have had many bad IEP's and I have hired

an advocate who went to 2 IEP's and then I hired the attorney, my advocate works

with to help me to go due process. School districts make us spend alot of time

and money to get the services that are children need.

I am trying to get my 2 kids out of sdc classes and mainstreamed into the

regular classes with the support they need happening in the classroom. In my

district self contained classrooms have too many children with behavior issues

and so the teacher doesn't get to teach the parallel curriculum enough. Which

leaves my children getting too much remediation and not enough learning. My

daughter is 4 years behind in Reading and writing, but is bored to death in the

class. She says it is too easy.

My son is 6 years behind in reading, writing, and speaking and 4 years behind in

math. I hired a tutor last May and so he actually made a little gain this last

year. I am fighting to get the school to pay me back for the tutoring expenses.

They had him misdiagnosed as retarded for 3 years and then refuse to compensate

for the lack of appropriate services.

Good Luck,

Lorraine

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From: " April Larsen " <ALarsen65@...>

I just had to blow steam that we had the worst meeting the school

study team - who, once again, recommended SLT for 20 min 3X a week in

group and would not even review the many (and I mean many_ reserached

based school appropriate education recommended for SPD/Apraxia. It

went no where quickly and they failed to provide SLT goals or even

discuss mine (they were passed around). The case manager left the

room unannounced 3Times, the third time returning with the school

principal!(not a study team member) who sat down, did not introduce

herself or get introduced to me (my husband conferenced called) and

to top that off she was reading my prepared goals! It ended very

sour with them abruptly stating our time was up (they told me they

allowed for two hours and we had 20 minutes to go) the principal

asked my son's preschool teacher to come with her because she had a

home study meeting but....the teacher's purse and car keys remained

in the classroom another 10 minutes while I tried to sort out how we

would review the goals. It was then that case manager failed to

provide me with a copy of who attended the meeting and any progress

reports that I asked for (although the OT did prepare one the teacher

and the speech pathologist did not) and brought up mediation. I

countered today by contacting an advocate, and SPAN, and sending off

a 4 page letter that lists my concerns, what we agreed on and what we

did not and asked for another IEP meeting with the director of pupil

services. Also as a side note the summary the SLT did share was a

two short paragraph one (this for a speech language disorder!) that

stated my son used some jargon words - HELLO?! It is really more

like 75% and my husband stated that in the meeting. I have asked the

study team to have him taped in class, provide us with an IEE and I

would tape him at home with his echoed jargon speech. I feel like I

went to war!

April

May 23, 2007

Bypass all of the peons and go straight to getting the superintendant and the

state dept of education involved. I did and they no longer try to fight me on

my sons needs. Once they realize that you are educated in the law and that you

aren't going to listen to their BS they kind of give up and provide the services

they are required to provide.

April Larsen <ALarsen65@...> wrote: I just had to blow steam that

we had the worst meeting the school