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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm the one who posted about a child who has stuck with the program and likely will continue it.  As I said up front, it depends on a child's disabilities.  As for services, it's only now, late in elementary that we became fully aware that, legally, the school system is required to provide services or at least accomodations; most school systems, including ours, are not prepared for this and, in fact, for years we were told that they don't provide such services -- and we accepted that as accurate.  It's not.  So we've been working with them on accomodations.  I will say that that the lack of services until now has definitely not been helpful but nevertheless, the special ed services in English have helped with Spanish reading and writing.  DC's reading in Spanish took off at the same time as reading in English did -- but both also remain challenging (DC now reads close to grade level after lagging a year+ behind in English reading).  Also, there's transference - DC was able to talk in English about subjects learned in Spanish with no problem.  I also understand that speech issues can be very different - DC "only" has ADHD and a writing disability (although we think there may be others)[/quote]

At the elementary level, foreign language isn't a core subject.  FCPS is not required to provide foreign language special ed services.  If a child is unable to access the curricula in the target language without special education services then immersion will be deemed inappropriate for the child and he will be re-assigned to a non-immersion classroom.  Not saying kids wouldn't benefit from it but considering the funding situation, I understand it.
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