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Spideyman

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was wondering if anyone has any general ideas on this,I have an IEP on Friday and have no idea what questions I need to ask. Not even sure about what types of Autistic there are. Autism. would appreciate any information you all might share with me. Thanks
In the US, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) requires public schools to develop an IEP for every student with a disability who is found to meet the federal and state requirements for special education.[6] The IEP must be designed to provide the child with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). The IEP refers both to the educational program to be provided to a child with a disability and to the written document that describes that educational program. The IDEA requires that an IEP be written according to the needs of each student who is eligible under the IDEA; an IEP must also meet state regulations. The following must be included.

  • The student's present levels of academic and functional performance
  • Measurable annual goals, including academic and functional goals
  • How the student's progress toward meeting annual goals is to be measured and reported to the parents
  • Special-education and related services, as well as supplementary aids to be provided to the student
  • Schedule of services to be provided, including when the services are to begin, the frequency, duration and location for the provision of services
  • Program modifications or supports provided to school personnel on behalf of the child
  • Least Restrictive Environment data which includes calculations of the amount of time to be spent each day by the student in general-education settings as opposed to the amount of time to be spent in special-education settings
  • Explanation of any time the child will not participate along with non-disabled children
  • Accommodations to be provided during state and district assessments that are necessary to the measuring the student's academic and functional performance[7]
  • The student should attend when appropriate. If the student is over fourteen, he or she should be invited to be a part of the IEP team.
  • Additionally, when the student is sixteen years of age, a statement of post-secondary goals and a plan for providing what the student needs to make a successful transition is required.[6] This transition plan can be created at an earlier age if desired, but must be in place by the age of sixteen.
An IEP must also include other pertinent information found necessary by the team, such as a health plan or a behavior plan for some students.
 

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Hi King Family Fan. Has your child ever had any booster shots? There is a purported fallacy going around that booster shots contribute to autism. I don't think this is true, but I always think of the thalidomide scare in the 50's, it wasn't true either, until it was proven. Spidey is very cool for providing all the summarized concise information. Good luck!
 

king family fan

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Hi King Family Fan. Has your child ever had any booster shots? There is a purported fallacy going around that booster shots contribute to autism. I don't think this is true, but I always think of the thalidomide scare in the 50's, it wasn't true either, until it was proven. Spidey is very cool for providing all the summarized concise information. Good luck!
Thanks Mal,he has had all the shots required for school. But he has had some special needs since birth.
 

GNTLGNT

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Hi King Family Fan. Has your child ever had any booster shots? There is a purported fallacy going around that booster shots contribute to autism. I don't think this is true, but I always think of the thalidomide scare in the 50's, it wasn't true either, until it was proven. Spidey is very cool for providing all the summarized concise information. Good luck!
.....Spidey is an angel.......period.......
 

HollyGolightly

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Linda - I'm so glad you are heading in the direction of an IEP. Get it and keep it. I've got 2 children on IEPs (well, the oldest is 27 so not anymore, but she was from 2nd grade into college). (I'm in Tennessee too). It will be the best thing you can do - he will have a team helping him through his entire school career - all the way into college. Feel free to PM me if you want specific information. An IEP is the very best thing the state has to offer. It will follow him all the way to college - certain accommodations within the classroom and for standardized testing. Teachers will be REQUIRED to follow his IEP and assist him as needed. It is worth a million bucks for public school students in TN.

Autism is such a range. I am certain you've known people on the spectrum and maybe thought there was something different about them but you couldn't put your finger on it. That's another thing I can elaborate on in PM if you'd like. Your boy will find his way. I'm sending you extra love and hugs and prayers tonight. I'm happy you are on your way to an IEP.
 

CoriSCapnSkip

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Good luck with your IEP. I have Asperger's Syndrome, didn't know till I was 43 and no formal diagnosis till I was 45. Up until the age of eleven my problems, related to this, were relatively minor. After eleven I figured I was the victim of an elaborate prank which got way out of hand, that people had a rotten sense of humor, certain people like to create drama with no real cause, but the things they maintained were wrong with me I knew were not true. I really believed I was the victim of schoolyard rumors and welcomed the opportunity to start high school in another state where no one in the school, students or teachers, knew anyone I did nor had any means of contacting them. This went so catastrophically wrong I didn't know whether to believe they were all just snots or I would have to give up on the schoolyard rumor theory and really consider something more sinister and paranormal such as a curse. I studiously took precautions believing I was under a curse for at least five years. (To be honest I've never completely stopped this.)

A diagnosis and IEP might have helped me in a few ways. One was, I had an extremely short attention span which got a hell of a lot shorter in Kindergarten. The teacher would explain something once, I'd be, fine, let's do it. Then she would explain again for the average kids. By the time she explained a THIRD TIME for the REALLY SLOW kids, she had totally lost me. I didn't even have to listen in school, or thought I didn't, until high school, and then only part of the time. By fifth grade I tuned so completely out I was basically not there at all. Every class was generally something I already knew (such as reading) or something in which I had no interest or aptitude (such as math or science). I thought I had eventually learned math (because I was better than I had been in school which was bloody awful) but when tested for my official diagnosis I came out as borderline retarded in math, as an adult of over 40! I was given remedial help or was assigned extra credit work in classes in which I was slow, but given little to no help to develop anything in which I was interested or good at. A few years after I graduated, the public school started an accelerated program to keep bright kids from not reaching their potential and dying of boredom. I don't know what the school does now.

Like many other people in my position, I wonder whether an IEP would have either helped, or held me back, as I would be singled out as a freak rather than as a normal kid who refused to do "right" when I supposedly "knew better." (In high school I would sometimes demand lengthy explanations from my peers, then the things they told me didn't make sense!) In the end I really don't know that it would have made any difference at all. I hope it proves of use to some people.