Jennifer,
I also think you can ask them for ideas. I’ve had good luck there with them thinking outside the box. One way might be when you know he has a deficit is to use that as a way to work in the social too […]

Thank you!

I use a bank of IEP goals http://www.bridges4kids.org/IEP/iep.goal.bank.pdf that might help.

I’m a pretty strong advocate so I tried to work with the system. When that didn’t work on the latest issue, I started bringing in advocates, and didn’t tell the school that they were friends of mine […]

If the school and the parent have created an IEP the both sides are satisfied with, I would exhaust going through the school and then school board hierarchy before involving legal means. But if a patent can’t get […]

So, cautious, it sounds like it is going in the right direction. I am encouraged the teacher has cards and forms and happy there is effort.

Well, regarding the scores, yes, they can be depressing. For sure. […]

So….it remains to be seen how this plays out, but this may actually have been our most successful IEP meeting ever – I certainly came away from it feeling like they’d listened when I repeated myself over and […]

This story reminds me so much of the journey we have been on with our son. Our son has Verbal Childhood Apraxia. We have always advocated for aTOTAL COMMUNICATION approach. I remember my husband saying in an […]

You’ve gotten a lot of great advice, so I just want to echo an advocate. Some states DCFS offices have educational advocates just for this and are free of charge, so you might want to call your county DCFS […]

Hi janet,

On short notice, the advice I would give is

Go to your meeting to qualify him for special education services. Get copies of all evaluations and recommendations. Take all the information home with […]

One thing I think it’s important to remember is that for all of us smelly old NTs, it’s easy to think of all these different communications techniques as separate, independent pieces. For persons with […]

For an IEP to be effective, in my opinion, it needs to be strength based. This means the school should be incorporating your son’s strengths to help offset the weaknesses. If his primary form of communication […]

Michigan is a total disaster when it comes to Deaf & Hard of Hearing programs…and previous attempts at making connections there have been rebuffed. It’s so bad here that a recent article points out a young […]