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I tend to borrow (copy & paste) but when I copy something, it comes out white on black. I do have a black background with Chrome so I'm sure that where is comes from. Let's say I want to recommend a book on toilet training & want to copy the title & author to the forum, this is what happens: Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism by Maria Wheeler I think this looks sloppy but I can't change it unless I retype it. I think I might just need to be less fussy with how my posts and replies look.

Rather than requesting an interim eval to see if dyscalculia or SDL in math is present, my suggestion is to request that the triennial is moved up. I think things are cleaner this way. Meanwhile, I'd keep a log of what you see. Note down how much you help her with homework, how long things take her to do, write out what she says like 'I don't remember the reacher going over this' or 'I forget how the teacher said to do this' along with the date & the assignment. Ex: 10/11/22. Chapter 2.4 1-8, 10, 12, 14. Started at 3:30, finished at 4:15. Redirected her to look at 4-7, 12 & 14. 'This doesn't look like the problems we did in class.' My guess is 11 math problems shouldn't take 45 minutes - should be 20-30 minutes. This provides data on her struggles as well as the type of problems she had problems with.

This is helpful to hear. In this school, the actual instructional hours actively with a teacher are less than an hour, so the majority of the time is more on our schedule. My biggest trouble is going over the work with her while trying to keep her on task and focused. I have no issue remaining coach, I just feel over my head.

Of course you are entitled to an advocate. Your child is entitled to FAPE and the school obligation to provide it is required under the law . The school has no choice. The HSDL has information that you can use to help guide you and for talking back points. Home school children can not be forced into public school to receive FAPE .. There are time they will want to provide service in school on a individual bias but that can not always force that either. Child find and all the testing applies absolutely they cant force you to prove it https://hslda.org/search?indexCatalogue=content-search-index&searchQuery=Special Education

The ones that I got the most out of are the series 'How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk'. The other book that I feel every parent/adult working with children should read is Ross Greene's The Explosive Child. I've also read his Lost at School but he has a book for more typical kids called Raising Human Beings. (The plots are all the same - it's the characters in the books that are different.) Mona Delahooke's Beyond Behaviors explains why children have behaviors but doesn't have the concrete examples that Ross Greene has in his books. It's a good book if you are looking for validation that there is more to behavior than attention, escape, access, and sensory needs. (I don't like that when I copy from the internet that the text is white on black. On Facebook, no one could tell.)

The difference between an IEP & a 504 is special instruction. Does your child need special instruction to keep up with learning grade level standards? If this is needed, an IEP is needed. If they will do OK with accommodations, then a 504 is needed. There are gen ed services called RTI or MTSS that provide a lower level of support w/o the need to have an IEP. Is this what your child gets in math & ELA or are these services via the IEP? If they are gen ed services, the can & should continue. Read through the current IEP to see what the services are that go with the IEP. What's not mentioned on the IEP is gen ed that can continue. ADHD generally gets the OHI box checked. You don't mention what box is currently checked on the IEP. If your child is young, it might be the DD box. Know that if 504 supports aren't enough, you can ask for a sp ed eval and start the IEP process over. Often, in MS, when a student goes from 3 to 8 teachers, EF issues tend to crop up and students w/ ADHD might need to get IEP services.