JennaTN

Has anyone used or have any knowledge/experience of the lexercise program?

Yes, that would be amazing! What time would work best?

For curriculum in 2nd grade they use CKLA and Envision/Savvas for math. For intervention, I have no idea what they do. His diagnosis is autism and a mild intellectual disability. His biggest struggle is with retention and working memory/recall. He can learn something today or this week and it's gone by next week. Repition is what he thrives on. During his psychological evaluation he met all the criteria for dyslexia but since the psychologist had determined he has an intellectual disability prior, she could not say that is what the problem is. He has probably 10 solid words he has memorized, he cannot decode words, he will try to sound them out, but when he tries to blend, he says a complete different word. We are working on basic addition and subtraction fluency but that is still not something he can memorize, so it's still a struggle. I'm just at such a loss with what to do. I always thought the school at his best interests at heart, but boy was I so wrong. In a previous IEP meeting, I was told we could not modify curriculum unless he went into the self contained sped class. But that 100% in not an option. My son has no behavior problems, he gets along with classmates, follows rules and directions. We just need help getting him accommodations and modifications. I was also told that having modifications would change having a high school diploma to a certificate. My answer to that was we'll figure out high school in about 7 years, but for right now I'm worried about him learning to read and if thats what it takes, then so be it.

Yes I was involved in the team decision. I will admit I was not as informed last when this change was made. I was under the silly impression that they were doing what was in the best interest of my child. I now realize that they just didn't want to deal with him and how much support he needs. The progress monitoring showed very minimal growth from Aug-Dec, had IEP meeting Jan 7th. He was getting small group intervention with the interventionist. They said he would be better suited with the special education classroom so he could have the one on one intervention with the teacher. I thought wow yeah that sounds great. We have an IEP meeting set for next Tuesday to discuss this. And they won't discuss anything until then, which I understand. I sent the director of sped for the district a letter stating all of my concerns today. I attached his progress monitoring sheet so you can see. My biggest concern overall is that he is in a general education class for 2nd grade, gets pulled out for 2 hours for remedial intervention and misses 2nd grade curriculum instruction, yet he is tested on 2nd grade work as well as takes the benchmark testing at the 2nd grade level as well as TCAP. So now we are in March, we have zero knowledge at 2nd grade level, barely any of first grade. He is supposed to be getting accommodations, but I'm not sure they are being implemented properly. It's appalling to me that the whole team knows this and has the same dang data I do, yet they are okay with how things are currently going. I have tried to find an advocate, I can't find one, so I have been researching all I can do advocate for myself. I have a lawyer but have no utilized her in this process as of yet.

My son is 8 in 2nd grade. He gets 2 hours of remedial intervention daily. He is showing no progress and progress monitoring have declined since January. On benchmark testing he is in the 2nd percentile. I'm fed up with the school that it is now March and this has gone on this long. How do you know or decide to modify curriculum? I have lost all of my faith in our school, for just letting this continue for so long. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

I Just received the progress monitoring report for this school year so far. Yes, in March. My son was doing poorly but showing minimal growth up until early Jan when the IEP team decided to move his intervention to the self contained yes class for one on one intervention with that teacher. Since then, oral reading fluency, word recognition, and math computation has declined significantly. I requested a change, but the team does not agree with me that there is a problem. He is the 2nd grade, failing at 1st grade intervention in both reading and math. Since everything is data based, shouldn't this data show them that the intervention is not working?! What do I do?