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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a parent going thru the IEP approval process now.  My son (6.5) kindergartner is failing in reading, writing and math.  He cannot complete his homework and his report cards are going from 2 to 1.

We had to go to great lengths to set up a IEP approval meeting.  The various inhouse testing by the psychologists/special ed tester labels him average in most categories.  But average is pretty broad (e.g. 16% of 100% is average).  We have additional visual and audio testing.

We had to stop the first IEP meeting because the psychologist tried to speed up the denial process by ignoring homework and report cards and keeps going to the standardize test scores.  Good luck interpreting the results.  During the IEP meeting, the teacher and parents (Us) had to argue continuously with the psychologist to change criteria from no to yes for many categories.  Yes = services.

Look.  This psychologist appears to be very biased and overstates observations to meet a predetermined diagnosis based on one observation and testing.  Even though the writeups provided show evidence for other LD problems (visual processing, etc.)  Seriously, is the Conners sufficient to label a kid ADHD with one hour observation.

My son looks at homework and avoids it.  It looks like "Chinese symbols" to him.  He is not distracted.  He is intimidated by it.  Our local IEP team wants to do nothing.  It is all or nothing and failure is an option.

I guess we got one of the bad teams.  You bet we won't sign the IEP denial.  You bet we will come back with a good advocate/attorney.  You bet we are not going away!

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