Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Friends:
I'm reading up on the internet and am finding a lot of information. What I'd love are sample IEPs for this sort of configuration. I think I have found some good examples of dyslexia. I could use some better examples for dysgraphia (I have some) and for ADHD (I found a lot of accommodations but not so much goals; am I missing them?). I'd really like goals related to the confluence of all of these and related to slow processing speed specifically if that's a thing.
Got some specific web links or other ideas? This is for 4th grade. Thank you.
(I have looked at Understood and Wright's Law and some other sources but it takes a lot of looking to find sample PDFs of IEPs and in fact, I find them hard to find)
My DC has dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD also. He had several IEP goals in ES. One was based on reading progression. One was based on writing progression. One was based on increasing his self advocacy. His spelling goal was always to get it close enough for spell check to figure it out. His accommodations addressed the ADHD more. He had a reader and a scribe for all assessments. He received audio books for his classwork that was at his cognitive level not his reading level. He had OT, but it was minimal and never really progressed. Having him work on his keyboarding 20-30 minutes a day in the summer worked better. We did in the summer so that he was not overloaded during the school year. At home all year he worked on reading at the two different levels. One was remediation and one was using audio books for book reports and other language arts homework that was at his cognitive level. He went to reader tutor that was certified and experienced in all levels of Wilson. He also received Wilson at school.
He has a rather profound form of dyslexia and dysgraphia.
Dyslexia: He had trouble with decoding and phoneme awareness and Wilson was great at that. By 8th grade he was finally in the low average range for both of those (25t and 35th percentiles- coming from the single digits). He also has trouble with RAN (random automatized naming) and there isn't really anything out there that helps with that. He is still in the 1st percentile for that. He also still has trouble with rate, accuracy and fluency as a result. He had trouble acquiring his math facts and once acquired has slow recall. As a result he had had a calculator accommodation since Middle School. Audio books have been crucial to his ability to access the curriculum and continue to grow in vocabulary, background knowledge, and comprehension. When he went to Middle School,he started using Kurzweil and still does today in college. It is what he is most familiar- there have been a boatload of new text to speech programs that I am sure your DC will find and use - google, apple, Microsoft- all have their versions.
Dysgraphia- he has two forms of dysgraphia. The first is motor integration and the only thing that has helped is getting better on the keyboard and using word prediction software. The second relates to how he organizes his thoughts and gets them down on paper. Graphic organizers did well here. He is now in college and still uses them. He also had use of clip art as an accommodation for projects that required drawing.
ADHD: Since he had a scribe and reader for his assessment, he was already in a quieter place with only the scribe/reader and himself so he did not have a quieter location to take tests as an accommodation. He had frequent breaks though. He had preferential seating in the classroom (near the front, but near a plug for his laptop) and extra time. Extra time was important because it just takes longer to take tests with a scribe and reader as everything has to go through two brains.
He had the same accommodations for the SOL tests and for the College Board tests (including APs) in HS (scribe/reader/extra time).
He is now in his second year of college and doing very well. It is a long slow slog and small steps add up over time. Don't try to do too much at once., just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I took some of the wrightslaw classes and found them to be very helpful in the IEP arena. Good luck and I can answer any specific questions too.
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