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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I generally have felt like educational advocates have not been a good use of money for us, but one of the few good things ive felt an advocate did for us during a contentioous iep meeting when there was arguing, the advocate called a five minute break and had us step outside and take a breath[/quote]

Yes!  I think the advocates are not worth the money.  [b]Get your psychiatrist, tester, or tutor in there to explain precisely what your child's needs are and why.[/b][/quote]

Because, of course, once the school team hears precisely what your child's needs are and why, they'll be sure and get your child just that!   :roll: [/quote]

Yeah, I agree that schools will just ignore what they don't want to hear.  We had our child's speech therapist listen in on the whole IEP meeting and she commented clearly on our child's needs, but to no avail.  We got the IEP, but none of the speech services that were necessary.

We have had good experience with an advocate and an attorney, but the best experience was when I complained in writing to a special ed supervisor outside the school in the central county office.  My letter was factual about the ways in which the school was violating the law and refusing to provide the services for which we had clearly demonstrated need.  It worked wonderfully!

The problem is that there is basically no oversight of the school-based IEP process except in terms of procedural timelines that must be met by law.   Because of this, as long as the procedure has been followed, it doesn't matter whether the school has rely complied with the substance of the law.  Some of this is probably due to the reluctance of courts to second guess the "educational decisions" of the "experts" (aka teachers and administrators) except in really egregious cases.  [/quote]

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