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School will be starting soon and possibly well before you get an IEP meeting set up and the pieces in place that need to be.  I would suggest as mentioned going back to the evaluator who did the testing on your daughter so that you have in black and white what the deficits are in each area that the person found and a list of clear recommendations on what your daughter needs moving forward.

- For me a key score would be to her reading level and her comprehension level or percentage of what she reads.  Remember that all course material is presented on a 10th grade reading level so if she is a good two years behind in reading level, she may have real trouble in keeping up in her classes.

- Could/should her academic program placement be altered at all in terms of levels of difficulty based on what you now know?  Could she take one less elective and possibly gain a study skills course and make up the class in a summer school program?

- What was suggested in terms of strategies to help her remember what she reads - outlining, note taking??  Can you help her get started on these approaches from the beginning. Would it help her out if you "purchased" her textbooks so she could outline or highlight them as needed to help her cover the material?

- If she is more of an auditory learner, then ask the school division to do what they need to get her eligible for books on tape from Learning Ally ?  formerly RFB&D.

In the mean time it is important to be confident and upbeat that she can do this and to praise her areas of strength.  I hope she has connected to at least one activity, sport or club in high school so she can really enjoy these years and not just have it academic pressures.   I know of your frustrations, but you have to deal with things as they are now.  A member of our Book Club, a reading specialist herself, spends every night with her now 10th grade daughter trying to help get her through high school.  It is so frustrating and heart braking to see her daughter struggle and her social friends in other classes and a brother who was a top students.  Still just take it day by day.

We did not have that option.  Our two oldest aughters were in the Top 10 of their graduating class, while our youngest was at the very bottom.  She has Down syndrome, but still she learned to read  with great comprehension given her cognitive skills and could read just about all of this post and understand it, too.  Hang in there.

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