When you aren't satisfied with your child's IEP

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When you aren't satisfied with your child's IEP

Some people want to know what to if an IEP isn't working. It's important for parents to understand that an IEP and the child's progress on an IEP is evaluated at least every year. Every three years, there's a major evaluation with retesting, and a reevaluation of the child's skills at that level. But at any point along this process, if parents feel their child isn't making adequate process, they can call a meeting of the school personnel, sit around a table and talk about this. Similarly if a teacher, a school psychologist or other people think the plan isn't working well, they can call the meeting together. Invite the parents in and say, you know, the plan that we developed isn't heading your child in the direction that we want him to go. So we need to make some changes. Adjustments can be made by adding an amendment to the IEP at any time. It's really a document that protects the rights of parents so that kids get what they need in school. It's important for parents to remember that the IEP grew out of laws that were written essentially for and by parents many years ago. And that law is designed to protect students rights and children's rights. This is not a document that was created by a school system to get in the way of education. It was a document that had several important components. The most important was to be talking to parents about their kids and to help track a child's progress over time. It's really a parents' rights document.



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