Blogging has been light here lately, but just know that eventually we'll all get through IEP hell.
Transitioning to a new school requires the heart of a hero and the patience of a saint. Bless all you parents.
Showing posts with label IEP plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IEP plan. Show all posts
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dr. Seuss and the IEP plan
A poem I found online for all who deal with IEP plans.
And a great blog by a parent of special needs children with autism information called a walkabout's weblog that I found over at BlogVillage. A post there called Alphabet Soup is apropos.
And a great blog by a parent of special needs children with autism information called a walkabout's weblog that I found over at BlogVillage. A post there called Alphabet Soup is apropos.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Parents of son with autism sue school district
"At their son Jack’s second birthday party, David and Kim LaPierre noticed he was shutting out the other children, their first inkling that he was autistic. They enrolled him in a private preschool for children without disabilities and with more than 30 hours a week of therapy at home, he began to connect with others.
The school district in Springfield, N.J., became responsible for his education when he turned 3, and proposed moving him to a public classroom for disabled children. Fearing that Jack would backslide, the family kept him in private school, suing the schools to recover their expenses.
“It makes no sense to us as parents that we would have to put our son in a place that we knew wasn’t right for him, just so we could qualify for the school’s services or funding to help us.” said Mr. LaPierre, who estimates spending more than $60,000 a year on tuition and therapy.
Cases like these have increasingly become a flash point in special education, pitting parents against school systems that say they cannot afford to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents unilaterally reject their proposed placements.
Expectations that the Supreme Court would settle whether such parents must try public schools first evaporated after Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recused himself without explanation in two cases from New York State.
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The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guarantees a “free appropriate public education” for children with disabilities. Most of the nation’s nearly six million special-education students attend public school, but the law allows parents to seek public financing for private schools if they can show that the public schools cannot adequately serve their children.
As of 2005, more than 88,000 disabled students were educated in private settings at taxpayer expense, an increase of 34 percent over a decade, according to the National School Boards Association. Often school districts acknowledge that they cannot provide an adequate education, and willingly pay for private tuition.
But with an increasing number of parents rejecting public school placements without trying them, courts are grappling with when these plans are appropriate, and whether parents must try them."
-via NY Times
In certain states, different agencies handle the cases - and the plans - for children before and after they begin school. This "relay" is adding to the problem, some officials say. Combined with the lack of guidance from court rulings, parents -and school districts - are being left in a limbo where some say the number of these cases is limited while others fear the cost will be unmanageable.
To read the entire article, click above. You'll find the title interesting - as it reveals a certain slant. But then again I have a nephew with a disability so I know the importance of providing for the specific needs of a child in his or her IEP plan.
The school district in Springfield, N.J., became responsible for his education when he turned 3, and proposed moving him to a public classroom for disabled children. Fearing that Jack would backslide, the family kept him in private school, suing the schools to recover their expenses.
“It makes no sense to us as parents that we would have to put our son in a place that we knew wasn’t right for him, just so we could qualify for the school’s services or funding to help us.” said Mr. LaPierre, who estimates spending more than $60,000 a year on tuition and therapy.
Cases like these have increasingly become a flash point in special education, pitting parents against school systems that say they cannot afford to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents unilaterally reject their proposed placements.
Expectations that the Supreme Court would settle whether such parents must try public schools first evaporated after Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recused himself without explanation in two cases from New York State.
...
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guarantees a “free appropriate public education” for children with disabilities. Most of the nation’s nearly six million special-education students attend public school, but the law allows parents to seek public financing for private schools if they can show that the public schools cannot adequately serve their children.
As of 2005, more than 88,000 disabled students were educated in private settings at taxpayer expense, an increase of 34 percent over a decade, according to the National School Boards Association. Often school districts acknowledge that they cannot provide an adequate education, and willingly pay for private tuition.
But with an increasing number of parents rejecting public school placements without trying them, courts are grappling with when these plans are appropriate, and whether parents must try them."
-via NY Times
In certain states, different agencies handle the cases - and the plans - for children before and after they begin school. This "relay" is adding to the problem, some officials say. Combined with the lack of guidance from court rulings, parents -and school districts - are being left in a limbo where some say the number of these cases is limited while others fear the cost will be unmanageable.
To read the entire article, click above. You'll find the title interesting - as it reveals a certain slant. But then again I have a nephew with a disability so I know the importance of providing for the specific needs of a child in his or her IEP plan.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Inclusion: POV parent of a child with a disability
One parent's view about how the way people approach inclusion affects the process ....she writes:
"Perhaps if our professionals thought of inclusion as a way to make the most of all students abilities, there wouldn't be this need for all the meetings to define the term. If all people would look at people with disabilities and say to themselves, "There, but for the grace of God, go I," and then go one step further and try to imagine how they would like to treated if they were in that person's shoes, there would be no problem."
"Perhaps if our professionals thought of inclusion as a way to make the most of all students abilities, there wouldn't be this need for all the meetings to define the term. If all people would look at people with disabilities and say to themselves, "There, but for the grace of God, go I," and then go one step further and try to imagine how they would like to treated if they were in that person's shoes, there would be no problem."
Friday, February 2, 2007
One IEP plan....
My sister and her husband have had several meetings for my nephew's IEP plan. There have been meetings with school staff, an assembly on assistive technology and other meetings which my sister posted on the kitchen calendar.
My ten year old nephew went over to the calendar the other day after my sister posted yet another meeting and said to her "Thank you, Mommy, for all your hard work to make sure I get what I need."
One grateful kid.
And amidst all the planning for his transition to middle school next year, one IEP plan has been born. And it looks like it will meet his needs pretty well.
At least for now.
My ten year old nephew went over to the calendar the other day after my sister posted yet another meeting and said to her "Thank you, Mommy, for all your hard work to make sure I get what I need."
One grateful kid.
And amidst all the planning for his transition to middle school next year, one IEP plan has been born. And it looks like it will meet his needs pretty well.
At least for now.
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