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[quote=Anonymous]5:50 and 7:36, we have our next IEP meeting on Tuesday. MCPS sends a school psychologist and a PPW (pupil personnel worker) to the meetings. The school staff are always nice, but they seem to be afraid to stand up to the two MCPS reps. My other child has an IEP and because her services are different, MCPS reps are never present. It's a very different experience and I always leave feeling supported and acknowledged. Getting back to my son, I begged and pleaded for testing for a learning disability (he already receives services for speech and a fine motor delay) and they finally agreed. I received the draft report last week and I'm guessing from the way it's worded, they don't believe there is a disability. For now, his accomodations all relate to the physical act of writing. What I'm looking for now is someone to support him with written expression. He's coming home with extremely poor marks on his papers. After a slew of emails back and forth, I got word on Friday that the principal has now asked the resource teachers to work with him, but we'll see if he makes it official by adding it to the IEP. That's really all I was looking for from the start. The problem is that if it's not in the IEP, there's no promise it will actually happen.

I should also add that he's very good at math. He does quick calculations in his head and can solve real-world problems. However, on his math assessments, he can't explain how he got his answers. If I ask him to explain answers verbally and I scribe, the answer makes sense. If he has to just write it on his own, it's garbled. Nowadays, he's so frustrated that he simply writes he got the answer in his head. When we tell him to try to explain it, he starts to sob. It's really sad because he used to like math and his calculations are actually correct 95% of the time. I'm wondering if it's realistic to ask the teachers to scribe during math assessments.[/quote]

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