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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your IEP team is whack.   It is not possible to have both an ISP and a 504 plan at the same time. If your kid already has an IEP, then she is already “labelled”.    (Or maybe I’m whack If I did not understand your OP.)

An IEP legally requires 1) identifying a “disorder (like dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, language disorder, etc.) and 2) showing that the disorder has an “adverse educational imp t (which does not have to be “bad grades”) and 3) need for special instruction.  If the IEP team is noticing new issues and thinks your daughter needs accommodations (like extra time, copy of class notes, frequent reminders, etc.), then those accommodations are supposed to be added to the IEP.

If you have an IEP and your team is saying to you that they can only add the accommodations to a 504 plan, they are either extremely ignorant (best case scenario) or liars (worst case scenario).  Sometimes teams try to move kids from an IEP to a 504 because they think the kid has accomplished goals and doesn’t need further support and they portray stepping down to a lower level of support as a positive next step (best case scenario).  But, often the team is just tryinv to push the student down to a lower level of support that has fewer legal protections.

Please repost your question in Special Needs if you have more Qs about IEP v 504.

As far as getting an evaluation - as I said above, if your DC already has an IEP, she is “labelled” - you have to identify disorder to get an IEP, the disorder is a label.  Your DH is right in part because of course labels don’t fully define people and their abilities. And society still has some stigma about these labels.

BUT, you are also right. if your DC already has an IEP, there’s a pretty high likelihood that that IEP rests on some pretty crappy testing and data. Schools don’t like to put a lot of effort into testing because it’s time and money. A full psychoeducational or neuropsychological exam, if you can afford it, it’s almost always better and more complete view of the student. labels can be helpful and some ways - A label can help us find peers with similar strengths and weaknesses, a label can provide access to treatment, a label can help us research our medical issues, etc.

I think knowledge is power. As a parent I want my kids to have as much knowledge about themselves as possible before they leave the nest. Maybe if your DH isn’t ready for a psychoeducational exam, you could convince him to at least go and visit with a psychologist (or educational advocate) who offers these kinds of exams to get more education about what kind of testing is typically done and what I can tell you about your child. Sometimes parents do better when they hear these issues from a doctor then from the other parent[/quote]

You're missing that OP never said that the child study team found any disability or need for accomodation at all.  She had a.meeting with the team because she claimed there was some kind of need for accomodation
 The parent has the right to ask for that so the child study team met with her and documented her concerns and their observations and conclusions in an IEP report.  Note that OP dances around the obvious fact that no disability was found and no accomodation was.found necessary.  She still hasn't said where she wants.thjs to all lead as in what accomodation she is looking for.  In fact no where does op claim that her child was ever found to have any deficits at any time at any level of education.  This has been going on for years judging by the first post and the father is understandably fed up with it.  Amy sane parent would be.[/quote]

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