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[quote=Anonymous]OP here- she went through the regular Childfind process before beginning speech at school. She was found to have several delays, notably speech and fine motor, and this qualified her for 2 day placement in an ECSE class in addition to her 3 day enrollment at her private preschool she was already in. However, after one year in the program, they dismissed her saying she was "all caught up." I could not get them to agree to let her finish up the school year in the ECSE class because they determined it was no longer her "least restrictive environment." I had in fact told them that from the beginning of the year because this school they placed her in houses very low functioning sped students and she was never as high needs as they were. So compared to those kids, she seemed completely caught up I suppose, and they said she was a "shining star" who didn't need the program anymore. Yet she still has these very obvious speech issues and fine motor issues (still cannot write, has difficulty cutting, fastening buttons, etc- anything that requires tight muscle control).

So, I had no choice in them dismissing her from the preschool class but refused to terminate the IEP knowing she still had issues and delays and was facing the kindergarten transition this fall. I do have her old IEP and would be happy to give that to the speech center but she indicated it had to be current within the last year and that one expired in January. I will see if they can take that one though as it does list she needs work on the very sounds that are still giving her trouble and that I am specifically seeking private therapy to address since for the time being the schools no longer will.

If they will accept that IEP, I will use it; otherwise, I will have to do the private eval. I just don't want to let her go all summer with no speech; she is already backsliding on her F sound. It's like as soon as she was making the trouble sounds properly they declared her all done and wanted her out of the program without giving her the chance to work with ongoing continuous speech therapy that would ingrain those sounds as habit and routine. Now she is back to using P for F, can't make V, lisps because of the tongue thrust, etc. I don't want to leave those issues unaddressed until she (hopefully) gets speech through school in the fall. [/quote]

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