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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think your fears are unfounded. I wouldn’t stop the IEP or 504 process for any of those reasons. I live in a red state and this is not remotely a concern.

However, as other posters have noted, services aren’t really worth it in most places. Private services are an absolute must no matter what.

But, my kids have received the most services here than anywhere else we’ve lived, including N. Arlington.[/quote]

I want to know all of these parents who got IEPs but the “services weren’t worth it.” Yes the OT for example is probably better privately and became a waste of time when kid got older but I would never have thought my kid could qualify for an IEP if he didn’t need the services. And of course the IEP involves a lot more than pullouts. Of course like most other parents I have complaints and wish there was more, but everything we got we really needed. Are y’all talking about speech therapy for a lisp or something? [/quote]

I’m the PP of the referenced comment and nothing the public school in terms of instruction did moved the dial for my DS. He has dyslexia and the methods used to remediate dyslexia were completely inadequate. Everything he accomplished was done privately.

He had five hours of reading instruction pull out a week. Sounds great, right? Nope, wasn’t great. The kids were all in a room and paired up. Not sure if they were at the same level. They had an instruction book that they reviewed together. The teacher would stop in to check on the pairs in turn to see if they had questions. I’d rather him not be there at all. What a waste of time. He had OT once a month for 30 minutes for fine motor skills.

Once he got into middle school and beyond, some things became helpful. Access to the resource room to ask for help if he didn’t understand something. Extra time on tests. Access to audio books, if needed. But no actual instruction or remediation was helpful at any time.

When we moved to a different state, he was beyond elementary at that point. People here swear that the public schools do provide adequate remediation. I didn’t see it for myself though. We did send him to an OG accredited private school for language based learning disabilities for a while. They were fantastic.[/quote]

Same. I think the dyslexia "services" actually were harmful. The teachers didn't think it was real diagnosis and certainly did not know the right way to help. It was truly awful. We spent $20K so our daughter could read.[/quote]

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