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[quote=Anonymous]I have multiple postings to this site and just wanted to update our experience. I recently ran into one of my child's past sped teachers. We had coffee and they revealed in great detail to me that the year they were my child's sped teacher very little benefit if any was provided to my child. This was the same year we fought the school to provide meaningful services to our DC. We fought over the IEP and eventually started a legal suit that year but FCPS and the Principal toughly fought back stating they were correctly providing services for our dyslexic child.
This teacher stated that they followed a general reading program from a book and tried to create lesson plans to help but was so far out of her league. The teacher knew at the time they were not providing any real benefit to the children. The sped teacher explained they were a student that FCPS hired as they sometimes do with the provision that the new teacher would finish school within a specified time period after being hired. This new teacher tried and tried to meet with their supervisor for guidance and help but was told over and over by the supervisor to make a list and email it and the questions would be answered once a month. When the sped teacher stated they needed more help and wanted to meet face to face weekly they received a bad end of year review. This very intelligent and child centered new teacher was the first and only of many teachers I gave massive amounts of dyslexic material to take the time to read the info. My DC clicked extremly well with this teacher despite not having received benefit that year. 
Long story short- She was fired and can never again work for FCPS!
My only thought here is while monitoring your DC it may be important to ask the sped how they are being supported, how they create their lesson plans, ask about materials used and the multiple methods they would use to solve problems like lack of support or knowledge.
We did some of this but didn't know to ask about support.
I cannot stress enough the importance of documentation and to be diligent about documenting everyday.
I kept a journal in the car and when picking up my child just asked how their day went and what they studied and with who and jotted it down. Nothing can be done later without documentation.
No wonder my child continues to be underserved from FCPS. This came straight from the source folks![/quote]

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