Is 504 enough for anxiety?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were able to get an IEP for anxiety under OHI. But we were able to show an academic impact from the anxiety. Anxiety can also be coded as ED - not sure if that would help get services.

OP here, thank yes the previous school in 2nd grade coded it as Emotional Disability in order to keep the IEP for anxiety, flexibility and social skills, but now this school says that it is not large enough to warrant ED label.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does a 504 hurt your chances of private school admission the way an IEP does?

What do you think helps kids more, IEPs or private schools?

[Anonymous]

OP -- do you have any recent evals from private doctors to present? This is the BEST way to get school administrators and teachers to pay attention to your concerns. So... if you have several months before the next IEP meeting, go now to his therapists, OTs, SLPs and get them to provide written reports on what they think is going on and what is needed.

See if you could get one of them to come to your IEP meeting as well.

My child has severe anxiety as well: think terror at fire drills, crying at class transitions to specials, wandering alone on the playground, terror in the cafeteria, etc... My child has an autism coding on the IEP so they had a really hard time taking away IEP despite being on/above grade level in all areas but IEPs are not just for grades.

All this documentation from private testing has to be provided well in advance of the IEP meeting so you have a lot of work to do to get ready. The IEP team will say that they need to review your testing and may want to conduct testing to refute or confirm what you are presenting.

[Anonymous]

We had 504 for anxiety and it was worthless. You need an IEP for the teacher to even take it seriously or get support.