Sorry about the length, but I wasn't sure what to leave out. We are in NY. My daughter spent 2 very traumatic years in junior high school. She had an IEP due to SLD in math and writing, along with ADHD and an anxiety disorder. In the summer between 7th & 8th grade she was diagnosed with ASD. She was supposed to get accommodations for organization, breaking down assignments,etc and modifications for the workload in math and writing. I had battled the school both years because she was not receiving the accommodations and would end up scrambling at the end of every marking period to make up missed work, which added to her anxiety. She would frequently shut down and just pace around the back of the room rather than completing her classwork, which would be framed as her "choosing not to do her work.". I tried to be proactive each marking period and say "this will be the marking period where we teach her to use her agenda to keep track of assignments. We tried an FBA, but the school focused on how to get her to stop pacing, while I tried to focus on what made her feel like a caged animal.
Anyway, my daughter is now in an 8:1 class located in another District's HS, but run by our county's BOCES because she "wouldn't do any work" and "exhausted the continuum of services (except for actually following her IEP)" in our district. However, I had filed a complaint with the NY State Ed department with 6 charges of the district not providing my daughter with the accommodations and modifications on her IEP. The State agreed with me on all 6 counts. Now the District must have a CSE meeting to see "if compensatory services are needed to remedy the District's failure to provide the accommodations, modifications, and supports . . ." In the IEP.
FINALLY . . . my question:. What types of compensatory services may be appropriate? How does one remedy two years of trauma? My daughter's EF skills were lagging when she entered Jr. HS, now they are non-existent. She will not even enter the building - not for public swim time, not for planetarium shows, not for her brother's concert. Will the District get away with just saying, "she's not here, we're paying for her to go to BOCES so that's all that's necessary"?
I tried to contact an advocate through a local nonprofit who accompanied me to the last CSE meeting, but sh hasn't responded (it's been 5 days.) How do I prepare for this meeting?
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Sorry about the length, but I wasn't sure what to leave out. We are in NY. My daughter spent 2 very traumatic years in junior high school. She had an IEP due to SLD in math and writing, along with ADHD and an anxiety disorder. In the summer between 7th & 8th grade she was diagnosed with ASD. She was supposed to get accommodations for organization, breaking down assignments,etc and modifications for the workload in math and writing. I had battled the school both years because she was not receiving the accommodations and would end up scrambling at the end of every marking period to make up missed work, which added to her anxiety. She would frequently shut down and just pace around the back of the room rather than completing her classwork, which would be framed as her "choosing not to do her work.". I tried to be proactive each marking period and say "this will be the marking period where we teach her to use her agenda to keep track of assignments. We tried an FBA, but the school focused on how to get her to stop pacing, while I tried to focus on what made her feel like a caged animal.
Anyway, my daughter is now in an 8:1 class located in another District's HS, but run by our county's BOCES because she "wouldn't do any work" and "exhausted the continuum of services (except for actually following her IEP)" in our district. However, I had filed a complaint with the NY State Ed department with 6 charges of the district not providing my daughter with the accommodations and modifications on her IEP. The State agreed with me on all 6 counts. Now the District must have a CSE meeting to see "if compensatory services are needed to remedy the District's failure to provide the accommodations, modifications, and supports . . ." In the IEP.
FINALLY . . . my question:. What types of compensatory services may be appropriate? How does one remedy two years of trauma? My daughter's EF skills were lagging when she entered Jr. HS, now they are non-existent. She will not even enter the building - not for public swim time, not for planetarium shows, not for her brother's concert. Will the District get away with just saying, "she's not here, we're paying for her to go to BOCES so that's all that's necessary"?
I tried to contact an advocate through a local nonprofit who accompanied me to the last CSE meeting, but sh hasn't responded (it's been 5 days.) How do I prepare for this meeting?
Thank you for suggestions.
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