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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ASD child has a 504 that we obtained before the current MAHA talk of forming a registry of autistic people.  I’m horrified by the possibility that DC’s information will be furnished to the current administration in extraction for school funding. The rhetoric from RFK Jr. especially sounds like eugenics to me.  I get what OP is talking about.  [/quote]

Respectfully you need to distinguish between fears and reality. I was disturbed by the resigstry idea but guess what … my kid’s data is already everywhere. How do you think they do the annual research on autism rates for example? Presumably OP’s kid has a diagnosis- their data is already out there.

The actual threat from the Trump Admin is that cuts to federal funding will lead to reductions in services available by schools - and the gutting of the ED complaints office. But to believe that kids with 504s and IEPs are going to get rounded up and that therefore you won’t get your child services is just … not supported by any facts I am aware of.

OP’s question is really just another variety of a question that we get here often about whether some perceived stigma of a diagnosis or label is negative enough to avoid the diagnosis. Sometimes that question indicates that the child actually doesn’t have anything that big going on and the parent is having cold feet when they think about it. Sometimes it’s a phase in denial. But those of us who have kids for whom NOT getting an IEP was ever an option can tell you that this kind of waffling likely bears little relationship to getting your kids actual needs met. [/quote]

There are kids that can get by without an IEP/504 but still would benefit from it. They are people and are not an insult to you. The lower the support needs, the less benefit there is from an IEP so yes the calculus might be different. In some cases, elementary schools put all the IEP and EML kids in one class to make it easier to provide services to them. I have emails from school staff confirming this. If your kid is barely getting any supports, it's not worth the disruption of being in that class which has multiple staff pushing in throughout the day. Especially if your kid have anxiety/autism/adhd which makes those disruptions even more distracting.

Hopefully, OP's school does not do this (which I think is a huge disservice to IEP and EML kids, and which I think most schools do not do). Ultimately I agree with you that OP should pursue services because I think even a small amount of services can be valuable and I think it is important for school staff to be aware of the kid's specific needs. Kindergarten is very different from preschool and the demands are different. A lot of times as these kids get older they need more support because of the increased academic and social demands.[/quote]

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