Princess Ariel
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I have concerns in this area as well. Thank you, Cheryl, for your very clear explanation.
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Ours will pay for the psychological testing but not academic testing (reading, writing, math). This is a change in the past few years. When my kids had their first evals several years ago, it was covered in full but since that time has changed.
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I also regret buying stainless. I can't keep them clean for very long and we are stuck with them for years to come.
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I totally understand! :grouphug:
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Dd was diagnosed with PDD-NOS by a neuropsych at age 10 (had two previous evals where this did not come up).
She was also interviewed by the school psychologist who is also the Autism Resource specialist. She was asked questions about friends, asked to interpret social pictures, given the Revised Manifest Anxiety Scale, TOPS 3, CASL, Conversational Interview and Observations of Communicative Behavior by the SLP, various OT evals and feedback from observations by the special education teacher at her coop class. Along with feedback from us as her parents and teachers, it was determined that she would qualify for social skills help. The actual report was pretty detailed on just this alone.
They did strongly consider the report from the neuropsych along with their own conclusions. Having that ASD diagnosis really seems to open doors for services and we also gave them everything we had from all previous testing over the years.
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I am not sure how your district operates but I always got a draft of everything in advance, before the IEP meetings. The team was very good at coming up with goals as they are much more used to writing them. They were really quite helpful, nice people, easy to work with. We only had goals for the exact areas dd was found to need help in after they completed the testing. I can list a couple of the goals below if that would help see what they might look like.
Name changed :001_smile:
Goal 1
Susie needs to increase her basic reading skills from a level of early 4th grade reading skills (level Q) with 90% accuracy and 80% comprehension to a level of early 5th grade reading skills (level S) as measured by Fountas and Pinnel Benchmark assessments.
Objective 1: Susie will accurately identify 80% of 4th grade Fry sight words automatically, as measured by her teachers.
Objective 2:Given a reading passage at her instructional level, Susie will accurately identify the main idea of the passage in four out of five opportunities, as measured by her teachers.
An example of one for social skills was:
Susie will improve her social skills by going from a level of not initiating conversations with peers to a level of using greetings and initiating conversations with peers in 3 out of 4 observable opportunities with no prompts, as observed by her teachers.
Dd did receive services at the school for these goals. Currently she isn't going for services and we looked into having her return this spring. However, the only social skills group that would be possible for her is all boys (gr 7-9) and that's not what she needs right now as a 7th grader. But we still will be rewriting the IEP at the end of the school year for next year whether or not she enrolls for services. We won't know what is actually possible until late August.
Good luck to you. Look forward to hearing how it goes for you. :001_smile:
ETA: we never signed at the meeting, always took the extra time to consider everything...
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I think it caught me at the right time and gave me some hope. :)
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92 yo grandma-sertraline. It started interfering with her sleep so her doctor took her off of it. She is on quite a few meds so that may be why and she and the doctor decided not to try another.
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I found this a helpful thread to get some ideas for my own kids. If anyone here has anything to add I am all ears!
I don't usually venture over to other forums very often so if anyone sees topics there that could apply to us here I'd love to know.
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To the OP, you are doing great work! This is a very helpful thread and I appreciate the suggestions for my own struggling learners.
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Just going to add this as a resource for those who may be interested. It's from HSLDA (I know some do not like them) and there is an offer for a resource sheet on homeschooling struggling learners in high school, which comes by email. I just got it today and have not yet read it. I think it's available only for a limited time. I am not a member but they do have some articles, etc., for free on their site. I will take all the info I can get on this subject!
http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/122/hshbwk9.asp
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I am getting to this thread kind of late but I also have a 13 year old dd/7th grader who is a couple of years behind in everything. She has been diagnosed with high functioning autism and has anxiety and slow working memory and processing.
As far as academics go, she has worked through Teaching Textbooks since the third grade level and is now about half way through the grade 5 level (I know you mentioned video won't work for your dd but we have had great luck with this for her as she is quite visual but also not auditory). She is doing well and I especially like that she receives immediate feedback as to whether each problem is correct. She also works on the Math-U-See online math drill to work on the math facts and I allow her to use a multiplication chart to complete her work.
We have had her working with a reading tutor this year and her desire to read independently has really taken off (I am actually having a hard time getting her nose out of a book in order to do other things!) She takes an outside art class as that is her passion and where she really excells.
I have some of the same concerns that you do as far as what her future holds. It is scary to me personally and I have been obsessing about it a lot lately. She has an IEP at the ps and did go there for services only for half of 5th and all of 6th grade. We just visited the junior high to see about going back for services for math, reading and social skills and we are trying to decide what to do. I am not sure about putting her there at this point in the school year which we could do since the IEP is still current. The early starting time and daily transportaion by us is also factoring into our decision but after meeting with them, I don't know that what they offer will really be that much different than what we are already doing with her. It didn't really sound like they address much about what post high school options would be until 9th grade. I find it can help to have an outside opinion on my dd as I know I can lose perspective as I am so close to her and the situation.
I really wish I had more to offer as far as advice but wanted to let you know that I can really relate to your concerns as I have them, too! You are definitely not alone! Good luck to you! Lots of good advice in the previous comments :001_smile:
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I think some people really have difficulty asking for help and she may be one of them. Maybe she looks at you as someone who has her act together and is telling you this in hopes that you will offer to help her. I agree with those who suggested postpartum depression or depression in general. Where is her husband in all of this? Is he against putting the children in school and is taking it for granted that she is actually teaching them? I wouldn't report her but would try to direct her to get some help for herself and for the children. It really sounds like a cry for help to me. Good luck!
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It sounds like you've covered quite a bit already. Personally, I like to look at the materials in the various booths and have someone available to talk to if I have questions. I don't like being pounced upon or high pressure types (not that you are at all!) I like it when the person operating the booth is the owner or a very skilled user of the service or materials. I have really disliked it in the past when I have stopped at various booths and the person there doesn't really know much about the product but is basically just a "body" manning the booth so people can look at the products! I think the fact that you are actually there in person for your own business speaks very highly of you! Maybe just take emails and send out a follow up type email after the conference to everyone as a group, kind of like a reminder and not individually unless they want that. Sometimes I go away from conferences so overwhelmed with brochures and info that it can take a while to process it all.
Good luck!
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I haven't heard of it before but I don't think I would take my own adopted children until they were older teens and able to process all that it might involve. Many adopted kids are emotionally younger than their chronological age and may not be mature enough to handle all of the emotions this might stir up. Just my opinion.
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I am sorry you are feeling so badly. I would definitely keep this in mind the next time you are due to have a colonoscopy and maybe they can have you prepare differently. They use this same prep protocol for everyone and some people can have problems with it as the preparations are just way too harsh for their systems. I know of one person who actually passed out from the prep and had to call an ambulance. I know I did not bounce back like most do and I thought it took about a week to get back to normal.
Don't be afraid to call again. I think they need to know you are having this reaction and give you some ideas as well as record it in your chart for future reference. Hope you feel better soon!
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:grouphug: Wishing you all the best and saying a prayer for your little girl!
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I hope you are feeling better very soon! :grouphug: :grouphug: Take care!
And I am so sorry for the loss of your grandmother.
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:iagree: No interest here either! May run to Target during that time as it shouldn't be busy during the game.
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Check your district website to see if they list an office of special education. Send a written request via certified mail for an evaluation to whoever is the director. That will start the clock even if the request winds up getting passed on to somebody else to actually handle.
Thanks. The thing is, though, that I want to know what our options are, what specifically is available for services either academic, job training, etc., before I actually request an evaluation. I have gone through evaluations before and it is a lot of work if we are not exactly sure of what we want. I did send an email for one of my dc who already has an IEP, which we did not use this year (long story), to check on the status of it and find out how it would work to get it started again. We never signed off on anything so I think it should still be in effect should we choose to use it. This child would be transitioning to a new school with new staff, etc. Lots of miscommunication there!
The elementary school had staff that we could actually talk to, ask questions of, etc. The middle and high school act as though they had never worked with homeschoolers before, and just wanted to quote the law to us instead of have a conversation with us (this was a couple of years ago).
I think I will try the director of special ed for the district and see where I get with that, LOL!
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Thank you for all of your responses. I have been calling for two days and so far all I have gotten accomplished is a grand game of "telephone tag"! A bit discouraged but I will try again tomorrow.
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Wish I had good advice but please just be gentle with yourself! Take care!
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especially those who have gone from homeschooling to ps, where did you start? I want to explore our options for either part time services or full time enrollment for our kids who have several diagnosed learning disabilities. We did take advantage of ps services at the elementary level for one child but did not continue on to middle school. There is probably even an inactive IEP out there that we are not using. We are looking at middle school and high school but I really just want to talk to someone about what would be available before committing to anything. It all seems much more confusing at this level than it did at the elementary level as these schools are quite large and the staff is huge as well. Would you begin with someone in the guidance department, administration, or who exactly would I start with? I do not know anyone in my district who uses special needs services and in general mostly know homeschoolers with children who don't have learning issues.
We are running out of options with the many homeschool coop type classes that are offered in our area as these kids just are not able to handle the material without going back to a lower level of course work and in some cases that would be really difficult. We are also finding that many of the teachers at these coops, no matter how well equipped they may be, are just not able to deal with ASD types of behaviors, etc.
I hope I don't sound too hesitant but this is a big leap for me and I am getting to the point where I don't think I have the energy to reinvent the wheel if there is already something in place out there in the schools to prepare my kids for the next level of education and onto adult life. I have already heard the horror stories but would like to hear of positive experiences.
Thanks!
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Oh, I totally agree but another one I really don't appreciate is when I click a story and the only way to "read" it is by watching a video. Our internet connection isn't always the greatest and I don't always want to use up my phone battery on things like that or have everyone around me have to listen to it as well (think dr office waiting rooms).
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