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Post by osita70 on Apr 6, 2005 10:24:45 GMT -5
does anyone have any last minute words of wisdom?
My son, through outside evaluations, has been diagnosed with a central auditory processing disorder, ADHD, and a tic disorder. We are going to be requesting speech and language therapy at least twice a week, a resource specialist program for reading, and an FM system for the classroom.
I have hired one of the psychologists who did the testing to come as my advocate. She is actually hoping that they refuse some of this so that we can go to mediation because, according to her, his test scores warrant all of these services and more plus then I could get back some of the money I put out towards the testing. At this point, I just want my son to get some help.
I had an initial "student success meeting" with the school before I had even requested an IEP evaluation. They completely blew me off and said he was doing ok and wouldn't warrant an IEP. I am so happy to be bringing an advocate this time who has dealt with all of the bullsh*t of this school district and knows how to work it.
Wish me luck.
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Post by laural840 on Apr 6, 2005 12:19:07 GMT -5
Good Luck! fcr*ssing fcr*ssing
No words of wisdom, we haven't had our iep yet, still working on getting Ryan tested for CAPD as well!
'Dying' to know how it goes! Please update!
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Post by d on Apr 6, 2005 19:31:11 GMT -5
Please let us know how it went...
fcr*ssing
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Post by osita70 on Apr 7, 2005 10:54:12 GMT -5
The meeting was a disaster with a capital D.
My advocate told me, "let's go in there with a positive attitude. We have all of the testing and data to support our claims, so this should be a breeze."
Little did she know what we were up against. The meeting lasted almost 3 hours and in that time we got nowhere - no decisions were made and no one could agree on anything. The IEP team said my son is performing at grade level, so it doesn't matter that there are major discrepancies between his IQ and his test scores. Some tests show a 35 point discrepancy!
I think the data my advocate presented was just too complex for the team (especially the 22 year old school psychologist) to understand - so instead they decided to say that my son most likely has Asperger's Syndrome!
My advocate (who has a doctorate and has done post doctorate work specializing in autism and aspergers, and has 2 kids with autism) had to laugh out loud. She told me after she had to be professional for my sake, but if I hadn't been there she would have told that psychologist what a complete dumbshit she is. An Asperger's diagnosis is so off base it isn't even funny.
So, it was decided we would reconvene at a later date to finish the meeting off. My advocate said we shouldn't even bother, because we are not going to get anywhere with this group of clowns. She said she has done hundreds of IEPs with this school district and this is by far the worst one she has ever been to. In her opinion, to reconvene would just be a waste of our time. She says I need to hire an attorney and go straight to mediation, since this IEP team is really incapable of understanding what a CAPD is.
So, it looks like that is the route I will take. I really don't want to have to meet with the IEP team again as the whole thing was very adversarial and very uncomfortable.
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Post by laural840 on Apr 7, 2005 16:03:04 GMT -5
So, it looks like that is the route I will take. I really don't want to have to meet with the IEP team again as the whole thing was very adversarial and very uncomfortable. I am sorry that it didn't go as you had hoped!!!!!! What a disappointment! What are your plans now? |
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Post by Mayleng on Apr 7, 2005 16:07:07 GMT -5
osita70, I am glad you made contact with Kell over at schwab. Hopefully, you guys can help each other.
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Post by osita70 on Apr 7, 2005 16:13:23 GMT -5
Wow Mayleng. Did you see my post over at Schwab? She emailed me and it's amazing how much we have in common.
As for what I am going to do now: interview attorneys. My advocate has 3 that she works with so I need to start calling them up and getting their opinions on all of this. I actually didn't think it would come to this.
I am trying not to think about all of it too much because it makes me depressed. I have too much to do right now with my daughter's birthday party this weekend and some other personal things. Guess it is better that I don't have the time to dwell on it.
Hopefully it will all work out for the best this way.
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