I have a meeting with SENCO and one of my son's class teachers on Friday to go through a new draft IEP.
He is a bright 7 year old with Social Comunication Difficulties and developmental coordination disorder. He's doing averagely well (although teachers this year have not given any feedback on this - I honestly believe they aren't aware of the abilities of the children in their class - e.g. parents have to ask for children to move up reading levels, they are never read with by teachers).
Anyway, school have been VERY slow to cotton on to DS's problems despite me flagging this up for over a year and despite ample intervention from external agencies. This is largely because I was the one who had him referred for assessment by the GP. He is now awaiting diagnostic testing for an ASD and having OT for coordination issues.
Anyhoo - my question would be, whether it is considered normal practice to involve parents in drawing up IEPs. I've read SENCOP and the Lamb report and this suggests yes but I wondered what your experience is. The school have been incredibly reluctant to involve me at any level and have positively resisted my attempts to be involved. However, they have now agreed to look again at the IEP targets and strategies following my son's move on to SA+ (at my instigation because the previous targets were really pretty poor and very vague).
I imagine I will be handed the IEP as a fait accompli again but I was going to ask for time to take it home and consider it before agreeing it. Do you think this is reasonable?
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Parent involvement in IEPs - any teachers out there?
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debs40 · 23/02/2010 22:43
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