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[quote=Anonymous]Special Ed programming for kids who are parentally placed in private non-special ed schools, including parochial schools, is handled by the district where the school is located, regardless of where you live.  That is federal law.  So MCPS is the school district you will deal with.

In MCPS, students who are kindergarten age and up are offered what is called a service plan.  There are three services that can be covered under a service plan: speech, reading and math.  It sounds like you had a speech IEP this past year, maybe because your child was a preschooler, but that will change if they are starting Kindergarten.

If you live in MoCo, I would ask for a meeting to incorporate the new information and shift fr an IEP to an ISP.  If you live in a different district, I would contact the Office of Private and Religious schools and get the ISP process started. I wouldn’t focus on adding another eligibility category.  Eligibility categories are broad, and dyslexia isn’t one of them.  Older kids with dyslexia who qualify for services usually qualify under specific learning disabilities, but kindergarteners are more likely to get their services under either speech and language or developmental delay.  What you do want is to add reading services, but a child can qualify for those services with any eligibility category, and for a kindergartener the primary reading intervention should be the same — highly structured phonics.

Once the ISP is written and reading skills are added there are 3 ways that it can be implemented.

1) An MCPS speech therapist and/or special educator can visit the child at their school to provide pull out services there.  This isn’t something the school has to provide, and they generally do this if there are more than a certain number of kids.  I know Lourdes has this, I don’t know about other Bethesda schools but the resource teacher will know for sure.  Note that PEP and K-12 staff are different so the fact that the preschool staff came in doesn’t indicate the school age staff will.

2) You can transport her to either your local MCPS school, or the one that services the neighborhood that her school is in.  This can be hit or miss.  They don’t have an obligation to work around your schedule.  But sometimes it works well.

3) There is a small fund of money that the county gives out to cover private therapy and tutoring.  It’s not a lot of money, and it can be hard to find someone who is willing to do all the paperwork.  
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