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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I refused to sign the IEP when they wanted full termination. They caved a bit and gave me 30 minutes of resource time a week at her private preschool. Now they want to reevaluate and are attempting again to discontinue all services RIGHT before she transitions from
Preschool to Kindergarten, which is hugely frustrating for me. This isn't even the standard 3 year reevaluation, they just said if I wanted to challenge her dismissal I would need her reevaluated so we had to agree to that to keep a foothold in the door. Feels like every meeting is them trying to get us out of the system and me scrabbling for any kind of purchase. Not at all pleasant and I have come to dread IEP meetings and dealing with anyone on the administration side of things (blessedly, teachers have been great). [/quote]

Yikes, why did they want to terminate--saying she was caught up? [/quote]

Yes even though she clearly still has trouble with some things like handwriting which they refuse to worry about until K because "that's not an appropriate milestone"- so even though this is a known problem area for her, they don't want to address it until K at which point it IS a problem, but if they have their way, she will no longer have an IEP and I won't have any way to ADDRESS the problem. She has made a lot of progress and I don't deny it but it seems that the system wants them to make enough progress to be dismissed and not to be fully caught up. I was told by the assistant principal of the elementary school my child will attend (who has never even MET my child but had to attend the IEP meetings) that I was borrowing trouble by "anticipating problems in the future where there might be none." Because I listed the ways the transition to K would be difficult for her and how I hoped her IEP could remain in place to help us help her. Related to that, I said that the class size will be bigger and she will be overwhelmed at first in a class of 30 kids vs the 15 she's used to in preschool (and will get less one on one help because of it). AP said and I quote "I need to stop you right there and tell you that we have never had 30 kids in a kindergarten class. Not since the 70s. Maybe 25, so you're just wrong about that." Because that discrepancy in 5 students mattered SO much to her she had knock me down a peg when all I was doing was advocating for my kid and explaining why she would still need help in K. I LOATHE IEP meetings. It's a constant struggle of "my kid needs this" and "but we don't want to give you that."[/quote]

Interesting. My child has low tone and handwriting is an issue. We did a year of OT and the OT suggested lots of playdoh-hiding things deep in the playdoh and having the child did it out, beads/lacing toys etc. Also gave us a home exercise sheet with yoga moves to try to strengthen the brain/body connections. If you research OT therapies for strengthening motor control/hand strength, you might get some ideas of stuff to try at home. Just an idea. [/quote]

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