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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP: here.  I came to one IEP meeting with one of the top SLPs in the country who had been testing DS for years.  Made no difference.  The teacher who opposed services is now a principal at a DCPS school because she could teach reading better.  We lost two years of interventions because the team believed her.

At another meeting, we brought the neuropsych who has published one of the top books on ADHD and executive functioning. The SPED teacher mentioned above (who was working on his masters in SPED and with one year of experience) and the school psychologist (both still in DCPS) completely blew off our expert saying that they knew better and DS was ineligible for services.  DS had services since age 4.  Really?  How many hundreds of people have you tested?  Are you an expert on dyslexia?

How many other kids have these three negatively affected?

Such intransigence, arrogance and the ignorance of the school staff, supported by a school administration that won't acknowledge others' lack of knowledge.

I think about all the kids in DCPS who get to high school and cannot read and wonder how many of them have unidentified disabilities. [/quote]

What makes me ragey is those of us who could afford lawyers could screw these people over big time, but those who can't afford lawyers get screwed. It would not hold up in court to say they know better when their credentials are way below the level of your experts and when you have testing data that is better than theirs.[/quote]

Actually a motivated and educated parent could get quite far pro se if they are truly being arbitrary in their determinations. The basic standards are not hard to understand - although the procedure is trickier to be sure. [/quote]

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