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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is important to know that once your child gets an IEP it is a malleable document and follows your child through the years as long as she needs it. [b]It can be modified or dropped as needed.[/b] You can ask for an IEP meeting at any time to ask for additional testing or new accommodations/goals. In many counties though the school systems fight like mad to not provide some services. School budget shortages are making getting some accommodations/services a fight.

If you get a service or accommodation in your child's IEP the school can not make you drop it. For example if your child gets an hour a week of speech therapy and the school decides your child does not need it, you have to agree and sign off on dropping it. The would have to take you to a costly due process hearing to force you to drop it.

Ask your child's ped if he/she has recommendations. Search for psychologists who do educational testing, they usually know of advocates. Also, some people assume advocates are lawyers. The best advocate I've ever encountered is a mom with a sns child. Some advocates are parents who know the laws, some are lawyers, and some are psychologists, etc.

It is also important to know that very few of the school staff and administration actually know the education law. Parents get told a lot of incorrect information about the process. This is why so many of us have advocates.

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I want to clarify something in the first paragraph. It can be modified or dropped if you agree to it. No one can make changes to the IEP outside of an IEP meeting which you will have been invited to. The school can change the iep if you aren't there but you can force them to change it back.

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