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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given that the only issue is reading, which if a child can’t read at the level that learning takes place will have detrimental effects on all areas of learning, you might consider whether your money is better spent on private services. Time is not your friend and working through the process with an advocate is both expensive and time consuming. [/quote]

NP.  While I agree (as a parent of an ASD student) that the process can be time-consuming and expensive, in the end it ensured my child received the support they were legally entitled to.  In our experience, simply "playing along" with that idea that we were all on the same team for a year did not lead to any results and my child suffered.  We also covered all the OT, SLP, social skills etc. service provider charges in the meantime.

The suggestion to consider and pay for private services comes up often on this board, usually out of a desire to help.  But, it overlooks the fact that the school is legally responsible for providing the necessary support.

Just as schools provide free lunch, counseling, library access, and ELL programs so students can fully participate in learning, children with special needs have a right to school-provided support that allows them to access the curriculum.  Families shouldn’t have to fill that gap on their own.

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OP here - yes, to all of this! He is legally entitled to these services, and I have my district contract with PRIVATE specialists (virtually), though rare and primarily when it is the parents advocating hard for their kids, and THOSE are the kids who have had the most success.  I am going to continue with private tutoring for now, which I've increased to two times a week but while she has done a huge amount of work and research around literacy, she's not a dyslexia expert.  I've already reached out to https://www.asdec.org/ which someone recommended, and am hoping to have a phone conversation in the next day or two.  I will explore these supports as back-up while pushing hard for better school supports. We will spend the summer living at my parents' home in Arlington and trucking him over to MD if we have to; I'm fortunate to have supportive parents who are willing to help however they can, which is often limited since we are 2 hours away.

Thanks to the pp from 13:54 - I like keeping the phrase "Needs drive Goals, Goals Drive Services" in mind! I am going to save that.  I've already determined that the one proposed goal does not meet HIS needs and is not measuring his growth in the identified weakness.  I am going to propose essentially an entirely different IEP.  I learned more about the current reading intervention and essentially the kids are in the room with an instructional assistant (not a certified teacher), who had 1 hour of UFLI training and it is the blind leading the blind.  There are multiple reading groups for all the kids who triggered for a reading plan and my child is actually in the middle.  There is no gen ed certified teacher in the group and the reading specialist is certainly not there.  The more I am hearing, the more upset I get. [/quote]

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