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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the Prior PP whose 6th grader has an IEP for these types of issues. This is the perfect year for your son to learn to follow directions. The key here is that you and the school need to support him with that.

[b] On tests, he should be circling or highlighting key words - even if that means he takes the test on paper rather than computer. For an assignment, the teacher, aide, (or you depending on the assignment) should go through the rubric with him and make sure he understands what to do. Before he turns in his work, he needs to go through the rubric again and check off all the items he completed. If he missed any, then he needs to complete them. These are all things that can be built into a 504 plan. [/b]

If he loses points on a test or assignment because he didn’t follow/understand the directions, then walk through with him where he went wrong and how to do it better next time.

This is part of what he needs to be learning in school. Some things are harder for certain kids to learn and that’s okay. Keep working on it. But, as you can see in this thread, it is important that he learn this skill.

-signed mom of a kid who got every math “estimation” question wrong for three years because he didn’t read carefully enough and didn’t estimate. [/quote]

OP here.

Yeah we're calling today to talk to his counselor about having his teachers reread his 504 plan, make sure that his testing accommodations are being implemented (according to him, they're not), and to add a goal of making him be better at following directions.[/quote]
So his teacher writes on the rubric “include cover page with colorful border”. Now you want teacher to reread the 504 plan, and add a goal of “making him better at following directions” ? 
How about mommy and daddy say “sonny, where’s the rubric for this poetry project? Let’s be sure you’ve ticked all the boxes.” [/quote]

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