Anonymous wrote:Someone needs to file a state complaint with msde and a civil rights complaint with OCR. Mcps does not effectively identify, accommodate or intervention with 99 percent of kids with dysgraphia or lds in written expression.

+1. They barely follow the 504 plans, require anxious kids to advocate for themselves to get accommodations, etc. It is bad

Someone needs to file a state complaint with msde and a civil rights complaint with OCR. Mcps does not effectively identify, accommodate or intervention with 99 percent of kids with dysgraphia or lds in written expression.

Even getting the high tech accommodations in elementary has been extremely challenging. There is no coordination between elementary schools and the high tech dept (hiat). It has really been a nightmare with school staff trying to sabotage any implementation efforts.

Even with a dysgraphia diagnosis from a private neuropsychologist MCPS' OT offered no services, a few accommodations to help DC write on a straight line (which teachers barely implemented) and the biggest accommodation of all -- let DC type everything (which of course he does very well). We continue (now in MS) to show MCPS DC's handwriting weaknesses and illegibility, and they continue to smile, give writing samples to their OT which of course he finds no services needed, point to DC's strong grades and cite his other weaknesses (e.g. slow writing/processing speed).

Has anyone had success with support at home for an upper elementary age student and if so what programs? Need seems to be in spelling, stamina, and pulling out and organizing written expression. Handwriting seems ok. I’m impressed with the Apples and Pears series for spelling/morpheme analysis. I’m looking at the Writing Revolution for thought expression. Other thoughts? I’m particularly interested in a program or technique that could teach me how to work with DC slowly and incrementally on written expression w brief daily exercise. (Reluctance to write, slow writing, simplistic written expression vs verbal expression.) Empathize with all those cobbling a way forward.

Anonymous wrote:Even if you have private testing that shows a dysgraphia diagnosis, MCPS will still want their OTs to do their own assessment. The MCPS assessment team will say the kid doesn’t have any issues and just blame it on being behind in reading. Seriously, our report says kids will have trouble spelling until they are fluent readers. Nothing was addressed about the physical act of writing. MCPS OT only cared about spelling and mechanics. Disregarded the fact that kids have to write multiple sentences for Eureka math

We had a private assessment indicating dysgraphia and MCPS did not challenge it. We were not seeking instruction, however, only accomodation