504(?) for PE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a really interesting topic to me because my kid has selective mutism, and not only does it prevent her from talking in school but also "performing." She is entering K this fall with an IEP already in place. The topic of PE never even came up, but she'll likely be unable to participate just as she cannot participate in circle time.

Just curious. Why can't she participate in circle time with that diagnosis?

[Anonymous]

Better to get things in writing now, before it comes back to haunt you in the later years. I have a connective tissue disorder that makes me dislocate my joints very easily. From first grade onward I modified certain activities to better protect my joints (basically we followed what my drs and PTs had said would hurt my joints, so no running/jumping). I modified PE well in elementary school. In middle and high school emphasis is more on team sports and passing specific skills tests, like running a mile and shooting a free throw. When I had a really bad leg injury in 10th grade and was on crutches/ in a knee immobilizer, they made me dress out for every gym class and write a ten page research paper on a specific sport every week instead of participating in class. I had a high school gym teacher (who was the head of the dept at a large FFX Cty HS), leave me on the lacrosse/field hockey field behind the football field and across the parking lot from the school when I hurt my knee and couldn't walk, despite being on the 'medical flag list', and me explaining the nature of my disorder to her. She had had a knee replacement and told me she knew what knee injuries looked like. The sad thing is I did have a 504---I typed all papers and was allowed to use a pen in math class, but bc my elementary and middle school teachers were all really great and figured out what I could/couldn't do and worked with me, we didn't have anything in place in HS.