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[quote=Anonymous]Can anyone tell me what the Maryland law is for gifted IEP's? I have a 1st grader who had a rough yr in K. He was advanced, yet had so many signs of inattentive ADD and was never getting things done, leaving things behind, losing things, getting lost on walks to the bathroom, etc. His classroom behavior was fine, he was just "lost" so to speak, yet they knew he was very bright. So we ask our ped and he was very against giving him a label of ADD without having him tested. So we did a private eval through Children's National and they found his Verbal IQ was 160, his Processing Speed was 94. They said that gap plus other eval items point to ADD as everyone had expected. Factoring in his other IQ scores, his total was 136, so it falls under "gifted". Plus his verbal is considered "highly gifted". They recommended a gifted IEP and a 540 for his ADD. They also did academic testing, the Woodcock-Johnson, and those were all above average, so they said he is a combination of bored, and just general inattentive ADD. The school has said they don't do gifted IEP, that the 540 could be done, but IEP is only for a diability. I am from PA and we had gifted IEPs there. They said in 3rd grade they can rec that he goes to the HG/LD center, but for now we need to just make 540 plan recs... I have searched and searched and can not find anywhere what the actual law is. Can anyone help with this? I plan to speak to a lawyer if need be but figured I would ask in case someone knows. They basically made it sound like they do their own gifted testing in 2nd grade and move kids as need (or rather select kids via application). It just seems odd to me. In PA if you test gifted, you get a gifted IEP. You can be removed from Gifted Learning if you are academically failing, or behaivoir is bad, but you still get whatever is in the gifted IEP, just not the fun extra feild trips and clubs available to "G.A.T.E" kids. But once you get the gifted label, you get the IEP, and get the accomedations needed. I guess MD is just different? Advice would be great, thanks! [/quote]

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