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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I struggle to understand how clarifying in the IEP that services will not be provided during PARCC testing leads to kids not receiving accommodations. It's not like 'reducing the number of service weeks' would be done with no context and while 'accommodations' fall under the rubric of special ed services, I can't recall any accommodations that are associated with specialized instruction. If a kid is getting reduced service hours because no SPED staff are available for specialized instruction/related services, he would still be able to get accommodations. Accommodations don't usually have to be provided by SPED staff.

We have noted in all our IEPs that 'consultations' with the guidance counselors, school psychologists, SLPs, OT/PTs will not be counted as part of service hours. Clarifying PARCC testing would be no different. It would be along the lines of "The IEP team agrees that during the period of PARCC testing, students receive limited instruction. As such, the number of service hours Larlo receives during the period of PARCC (typically 3 weeks in May), may be pro-rated by a factor of X. Once grade level testing is completed, regular service levels will resume."

I'm sure the statement could be crafted better but you get the idea.

So you are asking for it to be reflected in the IEP meeting notes? Both DC and MoCo (the two PARCC jurisdictions I am familiar with) use online forms that don’t have a space that would allow you to write that.[/quote]

I'm in Virginia and in the IEP there is a page called "Present Level of Performance" aka the PLOP page.  This page is also used to document the discussions in the IEP.  I, again, struggle to understand that DC and MD wouldn't have something similar.  Even on the goals pages, there are several places test can be added to clarify, explain, note, etc. things pertinent to that goal.  As a PP said, 'the form doesn't have space' is not a good answer.[/quote]

You write your meeting notes in the PLOP?

In both DC and MD the PLOP page is where you write the present levels of performance, which is critically important information for the next teacher to have, and for the next IEP team to look back on when they determine whether progress was adequate.  I can not imagine using that space to document discussions about anything other than the present levels of performance.

IEP's are challenging enough to interpret when things are in the places designed for them.  Looking at the PLOP, which documents where the child finished skill wise at the end of last year, to find information about something that happens during the course of the school year seems counterintuitive.

I am still confused as to why OP is exerting her energy about including something that everyone knows is true in the IEP, rather than on something that might conceivably benefit her child.  Exerting her energy to get it written down in some random place, where it isn't going to change a child's program a whit, is even more incomprehensible. [/quote]

The PLOP page is not limited to only documenting present level of performance, it is used to document all the discussions held during the IEP meeting.  That information is just as critical as the 'present level of performance'.  It provides insight as to how decisions were made, information that was/was not considered, requests for future meetings, a need to gather additional data, previous year's SOL socres, etc.  Where else would you document that a parent has asked for a procedural support specialist attend the next meeting?  Why would you NOT document discussions?

Your experience with the IEP process must be very different from mine if you don't want discussions documented. If a school was proposing to count accomodations provided during standardized testing as 'service hours', you can bet I'm documenting that in the IEP or clarifying for the next IEP team that those accomodations are NOT to be counted even though that may be the 'custom'.

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