[blindkid] IEP development for 3rd-4th grader

Brandon and Sarah lanesims at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 14:36:31 UTC 2013


Up until now we have been passive participants in Emilia's IEP development
and meetings. I have never felt that the document was particularly
understandable or helpful in a practical way. I now realize that this
cannot continue and I have decided to be much more active in the process of
writing the document.

I have looked at some online advice and samples and still have a question
about what to include/exclude from the Goals/Benchmarks. The common core
standards are clearly published on the district website. It seems to me
that if we expect her to have the same expectations as her sighted peers
with regard to learning the curriculum, then we just need to state that
clearly, rather than go through each individual element of the curriculum.
Then we just need to address areas of weakness or blind specific
accomodations, and the expanded core curriculum (like reading speed,
assistive tech, testing accomodations, O&M, etc). I'm thinking something
like this:

Language: Emilia will have the same expectations as her sighted peers for
mastery of the  4th grade common core standards.

After this we could go on to a specific reading goal and so on.

The same would apply to math and so on.

It seems to me that if we refer specifically to the published expectations
for her sighted peers, then the same expectations in their entirety are
applied to Emilia. Am I missing something here?  Thanks.
Brandon



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