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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I feel for you; your desperation is clear.  What state/county are you in?  I ask because if this is a public school, their handling of this sounds odd to me-they should be able to come up with SOME kind of accommodations to help your child, at least in the short term.  Shuffling an anxious kid around to multiple teachers does not sound like a good idea (and how is a first grader even accessing a K teacher, who presumable has her/his own class??).

In VA, to start the IEP process, you request in writing a student study.  At the end, they will decide if your DC is eligible for further study.  If so (and it sounds like t), they will run a battery of tests and studies on them.  At the end of that, they will decide if they are eligible for an IEP, and THEN the IEP will be written and implemented.  They have 30 days to complete each of these steps (I believe-it might be a bit longer for eligibility?).  It is not a short process, so start it now.

In the meantime, is there a special education teacher in first grade?  Do they float to all the classes, or are they in one specific class?  That teacher should be able to come up with some plans for DC.  I agree with you that if the school is at a loss on how to deal with your DC, that is a bad sign, since it’s unlikely that he changed so drastically from K to first (having an amazing year to not being able to be around any other kids to focus/be in school).  If you feel that they can’t handle this appropriately, I would have an advocate attend the special ed meetings with you.

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