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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inspired by the history book of similar tote- let’s compile a list of the most common lies we have heard in IEP meetings.  This could help parents and staff members realize when they are being played or engaging in illegal or immoral behavior.

-Your child has to be failing before they are eligible for an IEP.

-Your dyslexic child has to spend a year in RTI before we can consider other interventions.

-It is better for us to pull pieces from different reading programs to best support your child and not name any of them in the IEP.[/quote]

Not failing, but has to prove that they need supports in order to "access the curriculum".  If your kid has straight A's, they don't need supports to access, they already are.[/quote]

What if they are getting poor grades in one subject such as spelling (which has related SOLs) but good grades in other content? I'm not clear what "access the curriculum" means. Thank you.[/quote]

Spelling (AKA encoding) is connected to Dyslexia and can be part of not able to access the curriculum.   My child can not independently spell words near grade level.  This impacts his ability to do peer to peer review.  He struggles with completing written assignments in class such as writing a number sentence, explaining his thinking  or any independent writing.   He is self conscious that his spelling is so poor - so instead of writing a sentence with misspelled words, he will not write anything at all.   Next he will get feedback from classmates - you should have written a number sentence.       This is an example of not being able to access the curriculum and where my child should have adequate accommodations (to write sentences in math) and instruction for how to encode.[/quote]

Thank you. This is very helpful. The LSC didn't think there was suspicion of a disability requiring special education even though all of these are issues. DRA was at the end of year level mid-year, which didn't help. Nevermind that I'm sure the DRA would be much higher if the "reading" was actual decoding vs. memorization. The spelling is the most obviously presenting issue for now, though.[/quote]

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