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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My best advice is to hire an advocate if your child can’t access the curriculum. With few exceptions, MCPS denies and denies hoping parents give up and go away. I’m not clear on what accommodations you’re looking for based on your post. Your child also might do better with an IEP. My son was diagnosed with TS and dysgraphia and we had to fight hard for technology but that was before MCPS ramped up technology in the classroom. They felt he should write by hand so he didn’t lose the ability. We finally got the school OT on our side in 4th and she made a formal recommendation for an iPad. A year later everyone had Chromebooks and it was no longer an issue. He also had an accommodation for software that transcribed and a scribe accommodation (teacher recorded answers). Even with the IEP, there was no meaningful intervention for written communication. Just lots of graphic organizers.  I don’t think the MAP scores will figure into their decisions but the above poster seems very knowledgeable. I say this about the MAP scores as I have another child with a disability who has had far lower MAP-R but two schools refused to address it. [/quote]

I should add that my son ended up doing wonderfully when he was older. Except for messy handwriting, nobody would ever know. He wrote for the school paper and was accepted to his first choice college. So stay positive. [/quote]

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