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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the IEP for?  DCPS has some good specialized programs that are inclusion?

Speech and OT are pretty similar in every school, since such therapists travel from school to school (they’re not based at any one school).

Two of my kids have had both services throughout elementary.  Such services have ranged from mediocre to good over the years, depending upon who we got that particular year.  Regardless, we’ve always supplemented.

But it’s tough to justify such services after ECE without an appropriate diagnosis.  Which leads me to my original question — what’s the IEP for?

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DCPS doesn’t have any inclusion programs. Either a child is in self contained or resource.

Though as a self-contained teacher I have certainly given students inclusion hours in gen ed but that’s because the plan was to slowly transition them to gen ed/resource.

I would name my school for you OP but then I’d totally out myself lol. I’d say look at if the school has self contained. That’s actually a good thing because children in those programs often have related services meaning they will for sure have an OT and speech pathologist.

Then I’d ask the school how long the resource sped teachers have been there, if it’s less than 2 years that’s a bad sign.

I’d ask the school how they make sped student feel included, if they don’t have an answer right away, another bad sign.

Ask them how they are making sure all student are moving forward.

I’m also going to be honest here and say DCPS isn’t great for sped because admin often don’t care about sped, we are last. So unless the sped teachers are passionate and always advocating for their students you’ll have a lot of liberties taken with your child. Especially in NW schools.

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