Kim,

I am a teacher in a public elementary school and have been a part of
many IEPs.  Although I am not a special ed. teacher, I know what you
mean about the teachers ganging up on parents at meetings.  I hate it
when the person leading the meeting used jargon the parents may not
understand just to snowball them into compliance.  I have refused to
sign an IEP once because I didn't agree with the label or the
interventions.  It made me unpopular because I, of course, was
supposed to be on the side of the school as the regular ed. teacher
but I stuck to my guns and that kid now does not have a label and is
in regular ed. :)  So, read all you can and go in there with an
outline of what you think your child needs and don't sign anything
unless it reads as you wish it to.

Linda

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Subject: Re: Living On Own
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:00:07 EST

>Beth,
>
>Yes, we live in Virginia, but Stefan is only in Preschool at the
>moment
>(through the county school district), so he's only there 1/2 a day.
>I'm sure
>they would tell me that they do what they can at snack time, etc.,
>but what
>they do and what I want done are two different things.  He doesn't
>get enough
>"therapy time" to amount to much.  I'm trying to get info at the
>moment
>because his IEP is coming up in about a week.  I want to push them
>to add
>more time for OT, but they just flat out say "no" normally to
>everything, so
>I have to find a way to show it's necessary.  He cannot do much by
>himself,
>so I think they think it's a lost cause.  I feel like they gang up
>on me at
>the IEP meetings, anyway.
>
>Kimberlee, mom to Stefan (4) and Alex (9)
>