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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the child is middle or high school maybe instead the accommodation is that there's no grade penalty if homework isn't fully completed? That way if they need to do only 5 problems instead of 20, the teacher can evaluate based on those 5.  Same with flashcards for foreign language class or something like that.

You do still run into the problem of your child not getting the reinforcement that extra practice brings but can ease up on the anxiety of not being able to complete everything because it takes them longer as a result of their disability.[/quote]

This might work for math, but I don't see how it could work for a social studies of English class. Should the kid just read half the book or write half the essay? I think in HS, it is not a reasonable accommodation. [/quote]

Math requires pratice and repetition.  Just doing a few problems isn't going to help a child whose struggling.[/quote]
That's your kid. My kid with dyscalculia has reduced problems and still managed a 5 on the AB Calc AP test, albeit with extended time.

[i]DCUM maxim: what works for my kid works for everyone's kid! 
And its corollary: what doesn't work for my kid doesn't work for anyone's kid![/i]

The "I" in IEP stands for "individualized". Not "one size fits all".[/quote]

It could work, but OP cannot then claim the school is failing their child if child starts falling behind because they aren't doing the homework.[/quote]

I have a DC like PP w/ the AP Calc kid. And we heard doom and gloom all the time from the school like the immediate PP above - "you can't succeed if you do less homework", "if you don't do all the homework and you fail, you can't blame us."  At our insistence, DC had all kinds of homework accommodations - extra time, extended deadlines, and sometimes reduced. But, often, DC just "self-accommodated", i.e. he didn't do all the homework or he didn't do a homework assignment at all and suffered the lower grade from it.  He, like PP above, still took classes like AP CalcAB and AP Physics C and got 4s and 5s.

I am a tutor, and frankly so much of the homework I see assigned is crap - busy work or poorly designed and without could teaching explanation in class.  But even worse and much more common, was that the vast majority of homework is never corrected in a way that would allow for learning. Math homework had to be done but answer keys were never provided. Kids were never taught how to find their mistakes, how to track their mistakes and analyze for underlying causes and correct habits or misunderstandings. Sometimes homework was collected and never returned - not even before a test, so kids had nothing to study from.  Often essays and other written homework was returned with a grade but no other comments or correction - no spelling, grammar or punctuation corrections, no analysis of argument, no encouragement about sentence or paragraph structure.

Mostly, homework was pointless or far less valuable than it could have been. 
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Okay so how about no one does homework then?. My goodness the accommodation requests are getting ridiculous and this is why people don't take parents of kids with special needs seriously. If your kid can't handle diploma track then find an alternative. [/quote]

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