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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, I share your concerns. My IEP kid is now in 7th grade and I feel HS and college looming ahead. I have looked and there are a lot of options for kids now. Colleges are getting the message that kids are coming with IEPs and starting programs to work with them and provide support. My current obsession is the DeSousa-Brent Scholars at St. Mary's in Maryland.[/quote]

When is your child supposed to learn that life, employers and the real world isn't going to provide accommodations?  At what point do all of these accommodations hinder the child instead of help prepare the child for life ahead?[/quote]

Employers are required to abide by the ADA.  There are accommodations in the "real world".  A child with dysgraphia gets an accommodation in school for the use of a computer and word prediction software.  What prevents that child from using it in the "real world"?  My DC has Dragon Naturally Speaking as part of his accommodation for speech to text software.  Plenty of adults use Dragon in the "real world".  People listen to audio books in the "real world".   A worker is allowed to get up from his desk and walk around periodically and/or use a ball as a chair, in the "real world".

Would you ask the same thing to a blind person?  When are you going get stop using your seeing eye dog?  Or paraplegic?  When are you going to stop using that wheelchair?[/quote]

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