My son is in kindergarten and entered the school year with a private diagnosis of a severe phonological speech and language disorder. In the fall, I had him evaluated through the school. As a result, he was given and IEP with 5x30 push-in services for reading and 2x30 C-grid services for speech.
As the year has progressed, it has become clear that he has motor planning weaknesses. I pursued a private evaluation, which confirmed an additional diagnosis of motor planning difficulties and an expressive language delay.
I want to reconvene and go over these results because he isn’t making significant progress. Although he has made some since the beginning of the year when he was first evaluated. His gains have been very slow.
I believe he would benefit from pull-out support with a reading specialist. If they aren’t willing to provide that, I’d at least like to explore the possibility of C-grid reading support. Additionally, I’d like to increase his speech services given the severity of his speech disorders. Research shows that these types of speech disorders are strong indicators of future reading difficulties, and I want to ensure he receives more intensive intervention now with his speech and literacy. I just read a study that said that it takes 4x as long in 4th grade to remediate a reading disability than it does in K. Which means intensive intervention needs to start now. I can already feel a bit of resistance when mentioning these possibilities.
His reconvene is this week. Do you think I’ll face pushback on these requests? If so, do you have any suggestions for key talking points?
