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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the previous pages, so I apologize in advance.  As a special ed teacher, I can tell you a few things that might not have been mentioned yet:

1: Your child needs to be found eligible for special services because of a delay that causes "educational impact."  He could be completely non-verbal, deaf, blind, whatever, but still functioning on grade level.  He would not get services for that.

2:  We won't test your child if classroom test scores show that everything is ok.

That being said, if you take him to a private doctor, on your dime, and the doctor makes a recommendation, it's a little hard for a special ed department chair to ignore that.  They may re-test at school to try to prove that things are different at school.  (We've had kids come in with recommendations for equipment that is usually used for a specific disability.  When we test for that disability and find that it doesn't exist, we can't find them eligible for services.  We can, however, find them eligible under a 504 plan for accommodations for that device).

With regards to a 1:1 aide, that's probably not going to happen.  I would say "never," but stranger things have happened.  Your child would need to have some severe special needs to get any kind of a paraprofessional in his classroom working solely with him.  I have students with g-tubes and self-injurious behaviors who share the paraprofessional in their classroom.

I would start with a speech pathologist because it seems as though you're worried about social skills.  See if a private speech pathologist could make a recommendation about the need for speech and "language" within the school.  You may be able to get an IEP for that, if there's a delay in any area (receptive, expressive, articulation, pragmatics).  But, again, it has to be educationally impactive.  If he doesn't care about talking to other kids, and that's not impacting his education, then he won't get services.  Under all of the "basis for committee decision" pages for ALL disabilities, we have to answer "yes" for an educational impact and explain what the impact is.

I would seriously look into community programs like those sponsored by Parktakes to work on socialization outside of school.  I find that my students who are enrolled in those programs, even if they have tons of services in school, do MUCH better.  They are able to generalize their social skills better when they know it's expected inside and outside of the classroom.  [/quote]

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