Ask the school to do an iep on your child! if you want to you can have one done yourself not sure how much it cost just ask a Psychologist in your area they should be able to tell you who to contact about it.Once it is done make sure they follow it . That is were i am having trouble is the school tries to change it or don't even go by what it says.Make sure that they redo it every year. I had a school that did it once then never redone it. Then could not get them to do another.It was not that my child no longer needed it they didn't want to admit they messed up. Just because your child is getting good grades does not mean she don't need a little help. it may just be that your child is getting real lucky guessing the answers or a friend is giving them the answers. Good Luck

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I figured out all that means is your kid gets pushed on in school no matter what his grades are till they get to high school then they hold them back. with still no help figuring why the kid can't do the work to pass.and the school wont listen when the kid asks for help. Quote:

Medsabandageprayeranadvantage said: They use that because they know that most parents do not know the contents of that act.It has nothing to do with the means for them to provide the services. Once they see the diagnosis , they suppose to set up a ARD meeting to determine if he needs services, if determined he does not then appeal it while at the same time finding the district office over that school. Go online to see if there are any disability advocate agencies in your area that are willing to call the school and speak on your behalf. Good lick! Quote:

mcdshistorian said: Since moving to GA, I have told my son's teacher's about his strengths and weaknesses. This year, he went on academic probation for writing/spelling. My son is 8 in 2nd grade. He does great in math, science, history, etc. is above avg. in reading. (reading speed of a 6th. grade, reading level of a 4-5th. grade)but, has poor writing skills like a K-1st. The school started him with SST meetings working with a parent-school plan. His teacher is great but feels bogged down with everything. I keep telling the school he needs help NOW, not months from now. They say they have to do more documentation. I started all of this in Aug. at the start of the school year. I just was feed up with them. So I went outside and recieved an evaluation for him. The Dr. says he has ADHD-inattentive disorder with a written expression disorder. Their is no funding for research for the WE disorder. and no real treatment. Now the school says their School psyc has to look over the evaluation to see if it is accurate. They even told me my Dr. might not be qualified. What!! He has been doing this for years and told me that's their defensive mechanisim. lol. They still will have to do more documentation and his teacher just looked like see was going to break down. They might not assign him a IEp or a 504 before all the big standardized testing this spring, and he will need them. I want help for him now!! I am so proactive, but the school seems to be bogged down with all the papers, they say it's because the No child left behind act. What am I to do? I feel lost in this sea.HELP!!!!!

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For me, I see too much individual differences between kids with ADHD compared to how much parents and teachers want to stereotype. ( I list ADHD 3rd in terms of within-disability variance between kids... after Autism and Bipolar).

For me, I want to see school staff take a data-collection with scientific problem-solving model to each kid. This is the only way to properly get staff buy-in (they see the obstacles in a concrete manner), fine-tune the plan's effectiveness, and prevent stereo-typing and assumptions.

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