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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You didn't read my post.  I said that my child qualifed to receive services (and still does). I said I knew others who were denied.  I know what they said was incorrect, BUT THEY STILL DO IT; it is their SOP.  It is the way that they control their costs. What SHOULD happen by law and what actually happens are too very different things.   I have used wrightslaw, I have gone to their seminars and done some of their webinars. I have met Pete Wright.  I was housemates with his cousin's son. I DO KNOW MY CHILD"S RIGHTS.  BUT we have had to FIGHT tooth and nail to get them. NOTHING was EVER proposed from the school side.  My child will be the first in his Middle School to get a certain accommodation for his 8th grade SOL.  How do I know this? Because in his last IEP meeting (which was actually 4 separate 2-3 hour meetings) we had one person from the Cluster and one from Gatehouse telling our school they could offer it and they asked about the process as they had never done it before.[/quote]

Lady, you need to go back and read your prior posts.  In all of them, you're basically screaming that a kid can't get an IEP if they're working at grade level.  Even in the last post that you say your kid has an IEP and that's because without support he would fail.  You need to work on your communication skills because it's still not clear whether you really understand that a kid doesn't have to be failing or in danger of failing (or below grade level) to get an IEP.

[quote]A diagnosis of dyslexia does not automatically qualify a child for an IEP. They also have to be performing below grade level. 25th percentile on some things is the lower end of "average" and the 16th percentile is the lower end of "average" on others.

Not in my experience. The bolded part is my experience. We were told point blank that DS HAD to be performing BELOW grade level to initially qualify and receive services. In their opinion, if a child is performing at grade level without services/accommodation, then he/she does not have a problem accessing the curricula regardless of if he/she is performing at his/her intellectual potential. A child that is performing at or above grade level with additional services/ accommodations should already have an IEP or 504.

How can MY actual experience be wrong. My child is 2E or 3E or whatever they have come up with now (smart, several profound LDs and ADHD). Yet, when he was first tested in the FCPS system we were told that in order to qualify he had to be failing without supports. If he was not failing, then he was accessing the curriculum for his grade. We were "Lucky" in that he did need supports to not fail.[/quote][/quote]

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