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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - Update!

Evaluation to commence.  This was a week after filing an appeal with due process, which was resolved with mediation. [/quote]

Yay you!  Can you provide any more details about your "appeal".  Did you just fill out the form, or did you include a longer narrative of the problem?

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I filled out the Notice of Appeal form, and selected "Administrative Review" and "Mediation." I sent it to the office of Due Process and emailed the principal, AP, school counselor, and head of spec ed with a copy of the appeal and said I was just letting them know I was sending an appeal to due process.  No one from the school ever contacted me.  But the next day someone contacted me from Due Process and said she was going to help mediate.  So I told her everything from my side, she talked to someone at the school and got their side.  About a week later, she called me again and said the school wanted to invite me back for another meeting.  She kept saying they had no idea I was so concerned and they were so surprised at the appeal.    I did lay into this person about the ridiculousness and illegalities of not even EVALUATING a child with a diagnosed and fully recognized disability and cited ADA and IDEA and told her I'd been advised to consult an attorney and to expect this battle to continue through the IEP process.  She was like, "Wow?  Really?  I've never experienced a school being that resistant."  I laughed and told her to go find any parent group of SN kids in the state of Va and they would happily share their battle stories.

So... I went to the meeting, they declared they would be evaluating, and that was that.  I don't remember if I previously posted this, but they were just going to do a psycho-social evaluation and vision and hearing screening.  *I* - the ignorant parent- had to say, "No.  I need OT and PT to also evaluate."  They balked, and I had to keep insisting.  He's an ASD child.  He has sensory issues.  He has low muscle tone, and a history of underdeveloped gross motor skills.  His worst grades are in PE.  And they were finally like, "Oh... right..."

So, I have no faith in or respect for anyone on that LSC.  I'm pretty deflated that I have to send my younger children through that school.  [/quote]

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