Another meeting, wish us luck We hear those I am so STOOOPID remarks, all the time. Loki, you have given me a glimpse of the future,  I am sure ... Wow, I wonder why the heck they want him in a reg. reading class if hes only reading at 3rd grade (or 4th grade) level??? Sounds pretty ridiculous to me! I feel bad for ur son! My son says these things (at home too tho) and it doesnt matter how much we tell him the opposite how smart he is etc etc He gets angry and meltsdown wanting us to agree with him that hes stupid Its so sad. Def work on his self esteem issues cuz that can affect everything that goes on around him. Good luck and im glad the testing showed what uve been telling them all along! ugh!  (((hugs))) Well today we get my sons results from the school that the neuropsychologist recommended us to go to. My son had 4 hours of testing with them two weeks ago. Today they will tell us what they recommend. I had IEP meeting last week with the school he is attending right now, and have another IEP meeting with them on Mon, 23rd. My son did not meet any of his goals last year and the gap between him and his peers seeem to be getting larger. I wanted old goals to be put into his IEP for next year but, I am hearing they cannot do that? they also want him to do a modified state test instead of test his peers will do, I am not going for that either, so the negoations or battle( which ever you prefere)  begins.  Wish me luck!  THANK YOU, I need all the good vibes and thoughts I can get.  Best of Luck!  Let us know how it goes.   In the meantime, I will keep good thoughts for you. I wonder if this is something that varies by district, especially the part about old goals not being incorporated into the new IEP.  My son has yet to meet any of his goals, and we've kept them on through (now) three IEP's, with only minor modifications.  We've added some and dropped others, but the ones for areas of the most concern have remained. If your son has not met any of his goals from this past year, that should be the topic of discussion at the meeting.  If there is not time to discuss this at the meeting, table it and ask for a pre-meeting to be scheduled so that you can get to the bottom of why he has not met his goals. The goals can be reconsidered and perhaps broken down in ways that may help him progress.  If necessary, ask that standardized testing be approved so that the Team can get more information about why he has not met his goals.  You have until the day before school convenes next year to develop the new IEP, so the District cannot claim they need to make a decision by June. And DON'T let them talk you out of requiring the state tests. Those tests are meant to test the SCHOOL DISTRICT.  They will have far less of an incentive to help him make progress if they know they will not be held accountable for his state test scores. They have NO detrimental effect on your child. Well they pretty much confirmed what the Doctor said, High 3rd grade reading level and writing 2nd grade level. The Learning center recommends 160 intense instrictional sessions, 3/4 hours a day 4/5 days a week. They went through all the testing with us, showed us all the testing methods and how they were done and graded. Actually they felt he neded a little less instruction then the doctor recommended. I was not surprised by the results, basically the same as the schools last testing, except the public school said he was at a 4th grade level in reading. What did surprise me was the concerns they had about my son apologizing for not knowing how to do some of the testing and the way he was saying " how stupid am I" I"m sorry for not knowing that and " I must be stupid" They told him to do the best he could and not worry about it, he said "no teacher has ever said to me before" I am sad and mad about this, because he does not say this at home, and we have never told him he is stupid or dumb! It's the other way around at home, we tell him he is smart and has to learn a different way then some kids. His disabilities are causing low-self esteem and I did not know how much he realizes it, he does not talk about it at home. So I have another IEP meeting Mon. 23rd and will not sign this one either, they want to put him into a reg, 8th grade reading class next year, W/ Plug In,  I will not go for that. He will also be going to the Learning Center for 10 weeks starting in Sept, public school will not give us a modofied day so I will withdraw him for that time.
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