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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider yourself really lucky, OP. Often kids with ADHD are left with bare-bones and unenforced 504 plans as they are unable to get IEPs.

[b]An aide at this age can be extremely helpful to stay on task.[/b] I know people who have paid $10,000 to hire an advocate and attorney to get less for their child with ADHD child than what you are getting.

Unless a school is really really great, which yours sounds like it may be, usually they only offer aides when either the child is about to fail a grade or already has or when there are behaviors that are distracting to other classmates. In our experience, they could care less about inattentive type ADHD if the behaviors don't bother other kids and are more internalized like daydreaming all day long and not doing a lick of work.

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An aide through Moco schools gets 35 hours a week of training.  They vary wildly in quality.  They can redirect a kid but are not teaching them to redirect themselves, which is a skill kids need to learn.  I imagine the aides in Fairfax are similar.

So yes, OP is lucky to get an IEP vs. a 504, but the school is not doing him or his kid any favors by just increasing the number of aide hours and nothing else.[/quote]

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