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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairly soon - frankly after the lengthy neuropysch/development assessment, the IEP process felt like a breeze, again with a lot of supporting material, it's fairly easy - they essentially collect everything after some preliminary questioning, they are a lot of questions I recall, but if you have a DX, it makes the process fairly straight forward. They will meet your kiddo with you there - and I believe it was only a few weeks after that (after collating information from providers and any follow ups), they draft the IEP and have an "eligibility" meeting - I say it only took about 2 months give or take from the start start to the meeting. It's good to have something drafted and ready to go if in case you want to go the DCPS route at some point. The IEP is good for 3 years, but they did recommend in our case to come back in the summer and reevaluate some aspects and goals since kiddos change often at 3-4-5, so you can change some aspects of the IEP before starting at any point in time...since we did not sign off of the IEP, we didn't get a "placement" for a school and have to apply via the lottery if that makes sense. If you have a signed off IEP, DCPS is required to place your child somewhere - ideally within your ward, you can opt out of their placement and you can opt to wait for the lottery - either way the IEP will go with your kiddo wherever they end up. On the ISP, this is implemented in another department all together - we hear there's a waitlist to access the "Free SPT service" - again we didn't make it this far as we decided to wait...[/quote]

Thank you for the thorough response.[/quote]

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