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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Experienced special education teacher here who also has had OCD for years:

No school has the staffing to pull a child for 1:1 teaching. They might get small group instruction if they are way below grade level and need a specialized math or reading program. Those children might also have intellectual deficits or behavioral issues, so if your child doesn’t fit there, that’s difficult for your child.

An IEP would be to address specific goals, and the eligibility for an IEP would depend on their being an educational impact of the child’s disability. So you’d be looking for an eligibility of emotional disability due to the anxiety and OCD. Your child might benefit from another school geared towards ED kids.

Your child’s therapist or doctor and you need to consider what the triggers are for the OCD in the current classroom and how to make things better there. [b]They will not get pulled out to work on grade level lessons 1:1. [/b]

I would focus on working on the anxiety and OCD. They will just manifest themselves in a new setting, anyway. If the child is not on medication, please try that first, as it can be like a miracle for people with your child’s profile. I’ll never forget getting on meds for OCD and how relieved I was. When my child developed OCD, I took her right for therapy and meds. I’d never let my child suffer with the agonizing worry that I had. She was able to go off the meds after a few years.[/quote]

My autistic ES child gets pulled for 30 minutes 3x per week for 1:1 grade level lessons. They work on preteaching and finishing work she couldn't do in the classroom. Other times she gets 1:1 attention from the special ed teacher inside the gen ed classroom. I agree that you aren't going to get all day 1:1 instruction (in public school or anywhere else), but some 1:1 time is appropriate and realistic.[/quote]

Our school offers exactly this for various kids with IEPs with various diagnoses. This is exactly what we are hoping to get. I don’t think it’s unrealistic at all to push for it considering he can’t function in a regular classroom without doing OCD rituals and being constantly distracted an overcome with anxiety at all times.
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PP who got the nonmainstream placement. This sounds like a good and achievable outcome, but your child might have to fail into it. To go from a 504 to 6+ individual service hours is a big step. And I think it would be helpful to look at the alternatives for MS. Those kind of service hours seems like something you’d see in ES.

You haven’t mentioned your district. Maybe if you did people could offer additional things for you to look at.

Good luck. It takes time to get an optimal plan. [/quote]

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