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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who do modified assignments and/or reduced workload, can you give any more specifics about how the 504 is worded or how those accommodations work in practice? Our psychiatrist recommended reduced workload but I can’t figure out how it would actually work. One of the hardest classes from a workload perspective is also one where my DS needs the extra practice (foreign language, that no one we know speaks).

He really struggles to get anything done IN class because everything is just so distracting, including his own thoughts. Just listening to the lesson is hard enough. The tricks he uses at home to get through an assignment are not really practical in a classroom (pacing, bouncing, while someone else types for him, etc.). [/quote]

So, it would mean things like not taking a foreign language, much less a hard one that no one you know speaks in middle school.  That's not a 504 accommodation, it's just scheduling for the kid in front of you and not some college fantasy.   My kid with a 504 is taking one less academic class this year, he's taking advantage of the requirement that they don't have to take four years of World Language, science and social studies, and will probably do that all 4 years of high school.  He's also taking on level math, and not honors.

I don't know what the PP means about modified assignments.  You can't get modifications in a 504, and the circumstances when you get them with an IEP for a diploma track kid are very limited.

-- The parent/special educator who first commented on this not being a great accommodation. [/quote]

Thanks for the unhelpful and unnecessary judgment. 🙄 He picked the language without any input from us - completed the registration before we even saw it. I had my doubts but do you tell your kid you don’t think they‘re good enough?  And then go against his own wishes and make a special request to change his registration to something else? He’s actually doing fine on tests, just struggling to keep up with the daily classwork. At least this way he won’t have to take any language in high school. (He is in advanced math, because he would be even more bored and distracted in regular math, and while he’ll never be a straight A student, the math teacher told us directly just a couple days ago that he’s doing great.)[/quote]

FYI languages taken in middle school don’t count towards graduation requirements. 
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