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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I was just checking back and wanted to respond about the special ed attorney piece.  I am stretched VERY thin for money right now, especially post-holidays.  Yes, I am privileged in that both my husband I have decent, professional, middle-class jobs, but finances are extremely tight right now, more than ever.  My parents have been very generous and are offering assistance where they can, but they are not wealthy, and there are limits.

If this can be resolved quickly with appropriate services in school, then I will not hire a special education attorney.  I have spoken directly with the sped director, who is supportive of strongly enhancing the IEP and has essentially reassured me that we WILL resolve this and apologized repeatedly for our experience, and I've had an extremely experienced SPED teacher that I trust review the non-consented IEP, MY draft IEP changes, and has provided me with terrific, direct feedback.  I partly used my connections for just support and checking/validation that what I am asking for is NOT unreasonable and some general advice, but while I was initially hesitant to jump to speaking with the sped director, I was encouraged to do so quickly and I did.  I am not dragging my feet.

I am simultaneously also navigating school placements for my older child, who is also neurodivergent but has radically different needs.  I've had to navigate it all at the SAME time and it will require a significant amount of money, that I need to figure out.

Plus I've been super behind on my work and trying to catch up so I can meet deadlines and I'm just surviving at the moment and all in the midst of everything on in our country which is traumatic for basically everyone at this point....so I'm just like Dory from Finding Nemo, "Just keep Swimming" this week.

I have a lot of next steps in this week to get through before hiring an attorney.  I would appreciate resources for finding a SPED attorney, so I can explore costs/ect. if need be.

Thanks[/quote]

I don’t get you. Get your child a freaking dyslexia tutor. Cancel Netflix if you have to. You are so clearly stalling it’s sad. [/quote]

I really don't understand either. OP is going to end up with a fantastic IEP ON PAPER, but in reality nothing much is going to change. The reason the principal pushed back is because logistically the model that is being used at your school is a sped teacher pushes in. That is really useless for a kid with dyslexia. All you asked for was 15 minutes of a small group session and the principal still was opposed.

So go ahead and waste time and money with an advocate/ special education attorney / meetings, etc. So time will be added to the IEP with a special ed teacher who is now going to try to figure out how to pull out your child for reading when it is obvious that is not what the sped teacher is used to or has much experience doing.

Meanwhile it will be September when all this will be implemented and your kid will be in third grade and still not reading.

Save yourself the trouble and throw money at the problem (or ask your parents to) to help your kid learn to read. What could be more important than that? One to one tutoring is always going to be better than what the school provides. [/quote]

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