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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. All helpful. I had not found those links.

We do have an evaluation and I'll look back at the psyc specific evaluation.

We are teaching him keyboarding. We realize that this is just the reality of how he's going to write forever. That said, he needs to be able to jot a note. :-)

SpEd teacher: If a test is a math test (to judge level at the beginning or end of quarter) can those be given verbally? My DC fails them but when we ask verbally, he gets about 80% of the wrong answers correct so I'm wondering if he can just skip trying to do them himself and just move to verbal but not sure that's allowed. I don't care about the test's grade. I care about the teachers having time to teach him rather than determine if he's really at 50% or 80% of a math skill. If he's at 80 through a verbal score, I argue let's move on but agian, I'm not sure if that's allowed in the public school system. [/quote]

Not the Special Ed teacher, but having a scribe is a standard accommodation for math or any other subject. The student would take tests or complete in-school assignments outside the classroom with a learning specialist who would write down whatever the student said to. This is helpful when math requires 'showing' one's work. For tests the learning specialist would need to be careful not to give any verbal or nonverbal indications that the answer is right or wrong.

If needed it makes sense to ask for it but know that your child would likely be pulled out for testing. Scribes can push in for classwork or lessons. It is a time-intensive support, and many children hate being pulled out. So you need to have some evidence (from teachers, the psychologist doing the testing) that there is not another way for your child to demonstrate mastery of the content.

Overall what has worked well for me is to be very clear about the challenges and provide evidence from actual school work, comments from teachers, and then as a team come up with accommodations that could help.

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