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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We hired Michelle Davis' group - they were great.  We didn't feel we needed an attorney, and it worked well.  We came prepared with a full neuro-psych eval from Stixrud, and the advocate observed him at home and at school (a small private that was great, but couldn't give him the supports he needed).  To get the IEP we had to go through our home school, which he had never attended.  It was a unnecessarily arduous process.  But we got him a very thorough IEP and a rec for the GT/LD program.  We loved the ES GT/LD program.  It was life changing for him.

The MS GT/LD program he is currently in is woefully inadequate, and the supports he needs are not available.  They are not following his IEP, and we've decided rather than take this fight to the next level (we've been fighting with them all year to give him what he is legally entitled to per his IEP, they won't budge), we are leaving.  We haven't been accepted yet, so we don't know where he's headed, but we were impressed with Burke, St. Andrew's, McLean, Sienna, and Lab.  We think that he would do well in a mainstream school that offers the supports he needs with executive functioning and a mild language based LD.    I've posted before, but I'll say it again as a word of warning (and we are NOT the only GT/LD parents who are leaving, the program is a mess): no textbooks, tests not sent home for review (pretty standard I know, but that leaves us without any way to gauge his progress and without any source material), Edline is barely updated, so no info there, no electives or specials or sports due to scheduling of the GT/LD program (which we were not told before we enrolled him in the school, in fact they told us he had a full complement of electives to choose from), no adaptive technology allowed in school, no assistance in binder or planner organization, utter disarray and disorganization of the GT/LD "team" to the point where we regularly receive other childrens' reports by mistake.  I could go on and on.  But suffice it to say that I have never seen such incompetence in my life.  We use online resources at home a lot, although because he rarely has homework, and never has projects, it's rather academic at this point.  Pardon the pun.

And as you know, 2E kids tend to be slower to mature, and therefore have a more difficult time navigating the switch to MS.  My advice is to go private for MS, then revisit public after your child has matured a bit and maybe caught up to his/her peers in social/emotional growth.  It's a lot more difficult that I ever imagined, and I completely regret sending him to the GT/LD MS program.  It's been a wasted year.  He has learned some colorful language however.  Bonus.[/quote]

Can you share which MS?  Or if you don't feel comfortable doing so now, please share when you know your out-placement.  It is very hard for parents of GT/LD kids to assess programs because it is much harder for us to find peer parents.

I'm sorry to hear that your child did not have access to electives, specials or sports due to the scheduling of the GT/LD program.  Can you elaborate a little more why this is?  Is the GT/LD program just one resource class or is it a special set of the 4 core classes that the GT/LD student must take?  Did your child have access to a foreign language?  Did he/she take PE?  Sports are normally after school, so why would a child in the GT/LD program not have access to that?  I'm not doubting you -- just trying to understand how the program works.  There is very little information on the MCPS websites.[/quote]

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