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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes even though she clearly still has trouble with some things like handwriting which they refuse to worry about until K because "that's not an appropriate milestone"- so even though this is a known problem area for her, they don't want to address it until K at which point it IS a problem, but if they have their way, she will no longer have an IEP and I won't have any way to ADDRESS the problem. She has made a lot of progress and I don't deny it but it seems that the system wants them to make enough progress to be dismissed and not to be fully caught up. I was told by the assistant principal of the elementary school my child will attend (who has never even MET my child but had to attend the IEP meetings) that I was borrowing trouble by "anticipating problems in the future where there might be none." [/quote]

9:10 here.  I am the future YOU!  We agreed to drop OT two years ago because DS was 'good enough' for K (he'd also had 3 years of private OT).  We really couldn't justify him continuing school OT and we were choosing to battle for school ST services.  But, at each IEP meeting (and there was more than 1 per year) we reiterated our concerns about his ability to play the recorder and keyboard.  We began teaching DS the recorder before he started 2nd grade (in FCPS they start in 3rd).  But because of his fine motor and processing skills, he's  having significant problems.  Yes, I understand many kids have problems when they start but he's not a beginner and he's well down the path of 'challenge too great to overcome without services/support'.  This is not unexpected and not new.

If you read my earlier post, you'll know that I've refused to sign an IEP and have also given 'partial agreement'.  When we were in a period where I refused to sign the IEP, I was told FCPS couldn't do an OT evaluation unless there were a signed IEP in place.  You read that right!  I had it documented in the notes because that's flat out BS and an example of the tactics they use to pressure parents to sign an IEP.  Okay, you say you can't do an OT evaluation, I'll invoke my right to an IEE.  But, I digress.

Since we know it takes DS longer to acquire skills, his behavior when he's overwhelmed is already well documented and we recognize what path he's on, why not start addressing the problem?  Nooooooo.  FCPS's position is you can't predict that he'll fail.  I mean, he's already refusing to participate in music class and he doesn't pass the tests.  But, because their testing has him in the very bottom of the average range (their testing, not the IEE which has him far below average), they don't believe anything needs to be done.  Their position is he should fail before taking any action.  Then, I was asked, why did you agree to drop OT two years ago.  I told them - that we believed that he'd be okay for the next 2 years but that we thought he'd have problems when it came time to the recorder - and he has.  I told them what they've taught me is to [b]never[/b] give up services. I also told them that I'm screwed if I do and screwed if I don't.  If we don't do private therapy, DS falls behind.  After all these years of OT and practice with the recorder, DS is at the very bottom of average - high enough not to garner services.  Yet, we don't do therapy, DS fails.  He'll qualify for services but we have to go through his failure first.  They suck.[/quote]

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