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[quote=Anonymous]If you have diagnosed dyscalculia, you should have an IEP not a 504 plan.

A 504 plan does not provide any special instruction, and typically a kid with dyscalculia would need special instruction. A 504 plan would typically just provide different accommodations like extra time, copy of class notes, test on test booklet, use of a calculator, etc. What is in your 504 plan?

Did you request an IEP and get turned down for that and we’re offered in 504 plan in the alternative? Or did you go to your school and say that your son needed help and they offered a 504 plan?

To successfully get an IEP one must show the following three things: 1)evidence of a disorder, 2) evidence of adverse impact on education and 3) need for special instruction.

You want to ask your school district that your child be placed in a different environment from the general Ed classroom in order to successfully learn math, but you do not have the legal paperwork that shows that your child even needs special instruction in math, i.e. the IEP.  If you had an IEP, the school system would be obliged to provide special instruction in math, and the first step is typically to provide that instruction in the homeschool either through push in services or pull out services.

What you are asking for is not only for the school system to give your child special instruction, but to give it to him in an environment that is more restrictive than the general education environment. Legally, I think it’s very unlikely that any school system would make that leap.

My advice to you is to ask in writing formally for an IEP. Go to the IEP screening meaning with as much documentation as you can gather to show your students dyscalculia diagnosis, the way it is adversely impacting his education (can be but is not limited to grades, can also include a comparison of achievement with IQ, suggesting a large gap between the two, can also be how much extra time effort and tutoring is being put in to just maintaining the bear grade level performance), and showing the necessity of special education (some documentation that shows for a diagnosis of dyscalculia that certain kinds of math instruction that aren’t provided in general education are more necessary and successful). If the school system decides that it needs to take the 60 days, it is entitled to to assess your child, make sure that assessment is done by a school psychologist and includes IQ and achievement evaluation in all areas, not just math. Also ask for an evaluation of attention, executive function, anxiety, etc. Make sure you receive the results of any school assessment prior to the final IEP determination meeting.  If you get an IEP, at that time when the IEP goals are being written with you, you can discuss with the team, the very kinds of special instruction and where they would be provided at school or in an outside location.[/quote]

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