[blindkid] If Math was never taught, can 22 yr old stay one extra year?

[Carol Castellano]

Amen.

Call a lawyer now, before more of the school year goes by!

Carol

Carol Castellano
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National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Dr. Denise M Robinson via blindkid <
blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Tina,
>
> Robert raised a great question.
>
> Here are options and I am sure you need to contact a lawyer on the
> following if you want your child educated= compensatory services
>
> First, WHY was he never taught math skills or nemeth? My guess is if he
> does not know this area, he does not know many others. Back to the IDEA law
>
> When a child is not educated in all areas like all other children you can
> have the school--through a lawyer--ask for compensatory services which
> basically means--yes, you need to go to due process and the school ends up
> paying for after graduation services to fill in those gaps that he never
> got in his k-12 education.
>
>  It would be very important to find a qualified person to teach him needed
> skills and back to the---how many other areas of education did he not get.
> Many goals are written to the skill level of the TVI to teach versus "what
> the child needs." No, it is not supposed to be that way but TVIs are not
> going to write goals they cannot teach. That is true for all people BTW not
> just TVIs
>
> Blindness skills are so specialized and it takes a lot of education on the
> TVIs part to learn the skills. If they do not have them, then it is very
> important that parents FIND someone who is to add to their child's
> education. TVIs typically have great skills--but not all so once again
> parents need to be aware of this then you find a qualified person.
>
> I know--WOW, you are thinking--isn't this the schools job. Schools do not
> know. They do not know what a qualified TVI really is because it is so
> specialized. When they hire a TVI they believe that this person has all the
> skills so they will not know what to look for--you will, so start looking.
>
> But at this age--the way to get services is either compensatory thru a
> lawyer taking u thru due process for this time or DVR after school but you
> won't get daily instruction thru DVR typically. If your child needs lots of
> skills--compensatory is the way to go.
>
> Many suits on this that have gone thru on this so your child gets that
> specialized instruction after graduation.
>
> Blessings going forward
>
>
> *Dr Denise M Robinson*
>
> Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD
>
> Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
> Impaired
> 425-220-6935 | www.yourtechvision.com
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:56 PM, rjaquiss via blindkid <
> blindkid at nfbnet.org
> > wrote:
>
> > Hello Tina:
> >
> >      If your son has no math skills, he has a much bigger problem than
> not
> > knowing Nemeth. I would think he would need a math tutor and someone to
> > help
> > learn Nemeth braille. Did he also miss out on science? An Associates
> degree
> > will likely require the taking of a science course. The college will
> expect
> > that students have had two years of high school science. Perhaps your
> > community college has some GED prep courses that can fill in the gaps.
> Hope
> > this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tina
> Egle
> > via blindkid
> > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 3:11 PM
> > To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
> > Cc: Tina Egle
> > Subject: [blindkid] If Math was never taught, can 22 yr old stay one
> extra
> > year?
> >
> > Hello Dr. Robinson,
> >
> > My 21 year old totally blind son is in high school but as soon as he
> turns
> > 22 on Dec 13, he will be out of high school system. He is currently going
> > to
> > out of district vision program but they never taught him Nameth code, no
> > math skills. In order for him to even get an associate degree from
> College,
> > he needs basic Math and all college admission require placement test for
> > English reading, writing and Math so how is he going to College with no
> > basic knowledge of Math?
> >
> > Can we ask for extension? Is it possible?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Tina Egle Mother of Justin
> >
> > cell 847/577-7500
> >
> >
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