First IEP coming up. Opinions? | Autism PDD

Hi all.  I am heading into my first IEP and I just wanted to get any feedback on my list of "needs"

My son is PDD-NOS and has responded very well to intensive therapy this summer.  He is currently getting 20 hours of 1:1, 2 hours speech, 1 hour OT, and 2 hours of social group. 

I am requesting...

Preschool program (10 hours/wk) with a part time aide to help 1:1 with social

2 hours speech not as a pull out, but before or after school

6 hours ABA outside of school hours

I know this is a very aggressive request.  I have heard from several people that are from different organizations and have worked with my district and many others and they say that my district is "jaw dropping good", so to aim high.

What do you think?

Shoot for the stars and compromise when necessary. Good luck! I'm going to be blunt but nice so please do not take this as a flame.  Asking for services outside of school hours is not reasonable.  The school is not a private clinic and school employees are entitled not to have to work even more overtime than they already do (I probably sound crabby since I have worked over every night this week, as late as 9:00 p.m).  I don't know where you live, but in many areas employees are unionized and cannot be made to work outside the school hours.  Would you like it if your boss asked you to work extra?  As far as the services themself, looks like a good aggressive plan to help your child and I certainly wouldn't blame you for getting as much as you can, as long as he truly needs it.  Hope your IEP goes well.  [QUOTE=Speechie]I'm going to be blunt but nice so please do not take this as a flame.  Asking for services outside of school hours is not reasonable.  The school is not a private clinic and school employees are entitled not to have to work even more overtime than they already do (I probably sound crabby since I have worked over every night this week, as late as 9:00 p.m).  I don't know where you live, but in many areas employees are unionized and cannot be made to work outside the school hours.  Would you like it if your boss asked you to work extra?  As far as the services themself, looks like a good aggressive plan to help your child and I certainly wouldn't blame you for getting as much as you can, as long as he truly needs it.  Hope your IEP goes well. [/QUOTE]

Funny you should say this, but earlier today I was at a talk about servicing autistic kids, and I heard Bryna Siegel suggest to a bunch of educators that academic services be given during normal class hours, and social services be given outside of school hours to avoid stigmatizing the child in class.  No one in the audience said anything about not being able to work out side of school hours.
His preschool program is from 9-11:45am 4 days a week.  The school is open for services 8am-3pm daily (5 days).  So, my "outside" school hours is meant to mean, not during his preschool hours, but most certainly within the hours that the therapists work.How did you Iep meeting Go..  I think I would aim even higher and ask for more ABA hours. I think that
having sppech outside of preschool is a good idea. I should have mentioned the actual date for the IEP.  We will have our meeting on Oct 12 at 2pm.  So, I am prepping for it now. Thank you.OP, thank you for clarifying. In that case, seems very reasonable to me.  Dad toLuke, I actually think the idea you report has merit.  I work in a middle/high school setting and most of my kids on the spectrum are mainstreamed into the regular ed classrooms.  I have teachers who will allow me in the class to do a group social skills lesson intermittently, but it is usually based on social skills that have to do with group learning situations or addressing specific issues that cause the ASD student to "disrupt" class (not other types of social situations).  I don't blame the teachers as they have a ton of content to cover but this makes it challenging to find times for social skill practice in a setting where the kids who really need it can practice with neurotypical peer models.  I've tried getting kids signed up for after school clubs and starting lunch social occasions as ways to incorporate carryover of social skills introduced in language therapy but as you can imagine,  these opportunities are limited. My original post was merely meant to point out  that it isn't reasonable to expect employees to work outside the contract day (and at my school, the contract day ends about 15 minutes after the kids leave though the special ed staff rarely leave at that time).   
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