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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not only presenting with articulation errors that is the issue here; it's actually impacting my child's ability to access education. They had to give in-class presentations twice this year and both times we practiced extensively at home at ease public speaking anxiety. Both presentations ended up very frustrating with my child reporting that the other students didn't understand them and didn't ask questions, and the second time the substitute teacher didn't understand that my child was only 1/3 into the presentation and told them to sit down. So, it's discouraging to hear stories like that at pick-up and DCPS making up data to terminate services and refusing to consider parental input.[/quote]

By your own words, your child had "public speaking anxiety".  That's probably something you should get them therapy for, which in turn could help their articulation.  It sounds like the articulation isn't really a problem in settings where they're calm, and speech can only do so much sometimes with articulation.  There is often a point where it's more detrimental to pull a kid out of class for speech, ostracizing them from their peers and they miss instruction.  Sounds like your kid has hit this point.  30 minutes a week really doesn't do that much anyways with articulation if they aren't practicing skills at home or you're not helping them with it.

You also haven't stated how old your child is, despite multiple queries about it, which makes me think your kids is probably middle school, and really at a point where they don't need speech.

And parents are team members, but your vote doesn't weigh more than anyone else's vote does.  You were outnumbered, majority rules.  That's why they have the mediation/due process because if it was always what the parents wanted, kids would never be dismissed when they should be.  Deep down, I bet you agree and that's why you're not pursuing an IEE because you know it'll say the say thing.  [/quote]

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