ADHD student needs’ ignored

Accommodations listed in the student’s IEP included extended time to turn in assignments. One teacher disregarded application of the accommodation and penalized student by giving lower grades for “missed assignments” even though student didn’t know about the assignment or turned it  in later than the typical students.Teacher would later pull student out of other classes to talk to student, making a spectacle of the student.

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Some teachers have the mindset  allowing our student with special needs to have accommodations is “unfair” to the other students.  This attitude often results in poor grades for our student and a stigma.

This scenario snowballed into a fiasco that could have been avoided.

Public school staff often don’t understand the importance of proactively implementing accommodations. Advocates at TheIEPCenter.com help parents solve IEP and 504 problems by providing information so they can advocate for the child with special needs. Schools often don’t put plans into place legitimately unless a parent pursues action.

Don’t be bamboozled!  Waiting and hoping for problems to go away allows our children to regress.  Hoping the problem will go away will only delay getting the problem addressed.  Waiting too long to address concerns eliminates opportunities for correction.

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Autism help for Kansas public schools

A lot of our children with autism or asperger’s struggle in the public schools; especially since these kids look typical.  Many of the adults expect them to function like typical children so expectations are similar. Appearances are misleading however.

Many educators convince the parent to take a “wait and see” approach to their child’s coping at school assuming the school will do the right thing.  Some of these students exhibit behaviors characteristic of autism/asperger’s and the school doesn’t understand why.  Sometimes the police are called!

Kansas is one state that has resources available to the public schools to train educators how to work with our kids.  Often that resource is only tapped after the student has been disciplined.  Parents must be proactive BEFORE behaviors occur.

Advocates at The IEP Center™ help parents solve IEP problems by providing information so they can advocate for the child with special needs.  Don’t be bamboozled!  Waiting and hoping for problems to go away allows our children to regress.  Hoping the problem will go away will only delay getting the problem addressed.

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Kansas parents enroll IEP special ed students

As parents in Kansas enroll their IEP student for school year 2014-15, they may not be aware school’s  staff doesn’t really understand the needs of the child.  This is why the Congress put the IEP process into place and the opportunity for a parent to trigger evaluations.

Parents can check to see how many years’ have passed since the school last did a COMPLETE evaluation of the child to assess all areas of SUSPECTED disability.  Parents can request the school do this after one year has passed.

Also, parents can trigger the school to pay for outside evaluations, called “Independent Educational Evaluations”.  There are parameters for this including that it is triggered by the parent as a result of the parent’s disagreement with the evaluation conducted by the school district.

Independent Educational Evaluations (IEE) often prove helpful to both the student and staff since the IEE often points out areas that need to be addressed.

Parents in Kansas who need help dealing with the public school for their child with an IEP can consult with a professional special education advocate at The IEP Center.   Advocates also help parents when the parent wants an advocate to go to a meeting at the school with them!  Never go alone.

Parents often need to work to make sure the public school system isn’t failing their child.  Passing grades doesn’t necessarily mean your child is learning.

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8 year-old IEP student; police called

Student with IEP who has well-known behavior concerns as documented in the special education paperwork at the school experienced the public school calling the city police to deal with his behaviors.  Behavior experts were not called upon by the school to determine or implement a revised behavior management plan.  The student’s disability is his behaviors which manifest  routinely.

I wonder what this student’s wrap sheet looks like.

Seems the educators overlooked in-house approaches to helping this student.

Parents need to be aware of the need to engage school district personnel in advance of a student’s meltdown at the school.  The school can utilize behavior specialists to tailor a program specific to the child so it would be less likely that law enforcement would be called.  Often districts don’t utilize specialists in the community who are behavior specialist.  However, schools are becoming more aware of the advantages of using them.

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Parent requests’ denied in IEP meeting

Missouri Special Education Advocates

Student has struggled for years while mom asks occasionally for assistance from the public school for student.  A teacher in the early years told mom the child needs to be “tested”, yet the teacher didn’t offer for the school to do the testing. Student didn’t acquire skills typical of other students.

IEP meeting was held in the late elementary years where parents requests for student to get services he should have received all along. The special ed administrator makes a first appearance in this child’s educational career only to determine that what the school is doing is “appropriate”.  The large group of other school staffers agree 100% with the administrator’s decision  (some of these staffers contributed significantly in previous IEP meeting but not in this meeting).  Politics trumping planning for this child?

So the official line of the school has been made clear, which is not agreeable to the parent. …

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