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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has a 504..she has a neuropsych from children's 2 years ago but it didn't have ed testing and only a brief IQ test. I actually had a lawyer at the meeting with me today. She said wait for another year or 2 to do neuropsych...school is pretty aligned against us.[/quote]

You never said what writing program the school uses. If it is Lucy Calkins, so many students will not be spelling correctly or writing well. So, in comparison your child seems fine. I posted a couple of times earlier saying don't waste money on advocates or lawyers. It is better to just spend the money on tutors, keyboarding classes/programs, teaching yourself  a program like Noteability so you can teacher your child how to use it, and then taking pictures of worksheets yourself and uploading them into Noteability to use with an iPad and stylus.

Even if you got the most amazing IEP, schools in general due an AWFUL job with dysgraphia.  [/quote]

I don't even think they have a writing curriculum...it's Mcps.  I wanted them to let me scan in worksheets or have them do it...but the best we could get was she can type her answer online with better word prediction software/spell check.  
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Why in the world would you want word prediction and spell check? Are you consulting with experts on this? [/quote]

DP. Word prediction and spell check is what our neuropsych and SLP recommended once DS could at least get the first couple letters of what he wanted to spell correct or close enough to trigger useful predictive suggestions.

Why?  Because writing tests different things. If you assign an essay to check comprehension of a novel, then spelling is getting in the way of demonstrating understanding.

Kids who have difficulty with  physically producing handwriting or with producing writing with age appropriate spelling, grammar and punctuation need accommodations for those problems (which are developmentally behind age/grade because of disability) so they can access other parts of instruction which are geared toward teaching kids to articulate and develop their ideas according to various conventions or to assessing kids understanding. [/quote]

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