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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you are an attorney, I highly recommend reading up at Wrightslaw.com and going to one of Pete Wright's 1 day seminars, which includes a couple of books that reprint key laws and regs.  You will gain a better understanding of the IEP Process.  I found it really helpful and wish I'd done it earlier.

My memory is that they are classification can't determine services, i.e. my SLD and ADHD kid is classified as SLD but has goals in attention and executive function as well as writing, but I don't have a cite for that.    The basis for the goals is PLOPs (present levels of performance) so the trick is to gather documentary evidence of classroom behavior and ask that it be included in PLOPs.

You're an attorney, so you know how to create this evidence - every time there's an elopement, etc. you need to document it with the teacher or whoever.  You need to use FERPA to request all the educational records - for example, it took me several years to realize that the process in MCPS is to generate PLOPS from grades and a "teacher report" form, the latter of which was internal and never shared with parents.  In preparation for the IEP meeting, the sped coordinator would cherry pick the teacher reports for positive comments only.  Once I used to FERPA to request the teacher reports be included in the 5 day pre-meeting docs package, I was also able to request that the negative data be included too.

I learned to do other things like request an observation at school by a qualified person or outside advocate.  As they get older, there's more testing, but in preK and K there's not a lot to go on. 
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