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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I think we got everything we could get, lots of boxes checked off on the forms for accommodations. But I swear the people who run the meetings are so intimidating and imperial,  and they talk only in edu-speak.

The worst part of today was they made my DD attend the meeting. She had to go to a meeting last year, where they denied the IEP, and she ended up in tears. So the last meeting, I told them it would not be productive for her to be there.

Well, today they said she had to be there because she had to learn to advocate for herself and understand the IEP. Fair enough, I guess. But they had her come into the room, which had seven administrators and me already seated and started this whole formal meeting, where some of it I couldn't even grasp. So she ended up in tears again, and the special ed head said that if she wouldn't participate fully in the meeting, they'd have to cancel it.

Now my daughter is getting an IEP partially for MERLD (mixed expressive-receptive language disorder) and they're firing questions at her and getting mad when she answers with one word or just nods her head.  Pretty ironic. What is wrong with this system? Why is it set up for failure? Shouldn't special educators understand how hard it is for some kids to speak up for themselves when faced with a situation like this?

Anyhow, I have had it with them. We do have the IEP, but the pain of getting it may be too high a price for what we have gained.[/quote]

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