[blindkid] Things to include in a 1st grader's IEP

[Dr. S. Merchant]

Stephanie,

Does your school system have an accelerated or gifted program.  If so,
Kendra may deserve placement consideration or gifted services.  This is the
perfect time to ask, since in many cases 1st grade is where they start doing
"extra" or start identifying and offering other services/programs/placement.

It adds a little extra layer, but in our case, not much more, just
coordination with the gifted program to send over a teacher for gifted
services and enrichment, since we chose to keep Michael with his VI teacher
in his class of 3 other VI kids and not send him to the gifted class which
was in another elementary school.  However, by 3rd grade we made a decision
to send him to the gifted class at another school and have his VI teacher be
itinerate.  He was well grounded in Braille and other VI skills (as well
grounded as a 3rd grader can be) and now needed to be surrounded by his
academic peers.

So,, just a thought.

Sandy Taboada



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From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Kieszak, Stephanie (CDC/CCEHIP/NCEH)
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:47 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Things to include in a 1st grader's IEP

On January 12th, my daughter's IEP meeting will be held.  Her current
school ends with kindregarten.  We are anticipating a disagreement about
placement with the county (resource room school versus the feeder
elementary school partnered with her current school).  My husband and I
want to be as prepared as possible going into the meeting so please send
along any suggestions for things we should request. For example, it
never dawned on me before this year that we needed to specify that
homework would be brailled. We've asked for amendments to her past IEPs
as things have come up.  One year they wanted her to use a "safe"
cutting tool instead of the scissors she had already been using for a
year.  We asked them to include a statement that she was to use the same
tools/equipment as the rest of the class unless it was agreed upon
otherwise with us.  If there are other things like that we could plan
for ahead of time, it would be helpful.
I'd also welcome input on how many hours of direct TVI instruction your
child received in 1st grade.  Kendra is currently reading above grade
level so we don't want to lose any momentum.
Thank you!
Stephanie


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