[nabs-l] IEP meeting in senior year of high school

[Michael D Ausbun]

Hello there,
	My last meeting was an interesting one. Instead of having the traditional, “here is what accommodations he needs, here is what accommodations he is receiving currently, here are all the goals we accomplished, and here are new goals.” With all my current teaches and administration, we invited the Assistant director of the University’s Disability services, a representative from Vocational rehabilitation services, all of my current teachers and administration, and a few of my family, in order to discuss what I had achieved, and my future vocational, and educational goals. It was somewhat long, extremely boring, and in retrospect unbeneficial. Not because we did not discuss interesting and relevant topics, but because since then, all of what I had said has changed. For example, I no longer am a triple major in English, Philosophy and history, with minors in Anthropology and political science, with aspirations of becoming a high school government teacher for IB or AP. Now, I am a double major in Political Science and Philosophy, with duel minor in Anthropology and Religious studies, with my vocational goals being a foundation professor and a policy analyst/advocate for marginalized populations, or otherwise disenfranchised groups of people.
Hope some of what I said was of some help, though I have a feeling that my meeting might have been atypical, because they (the teachers and administrators) were excited that I managed to do a 180, and actually graduated (with a 4.0; though that is another story entirely).
Respectfully,
Michael

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From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Sophie Trist via nabs-l [nabs-l at nfbnet.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 5:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] IEP meeting in senior year of high school

Sami, I did things a little differently. Like yu, I've just
recently graduated high school. We didn't have an IEP meeting my
senior year. The last one I attended was held at the end of my
junior year. My guidance counselor requires each student to
submit their college choice to him, so that took care of that
process. As for ordering equipment, Voc Rehab is taking care of
that, and my VR counselor has never attended one of my IEP's.

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From: Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Wed, 20 May 2015 18:57:56 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] IEP meeting in senior year of high school

Hi,

I remember my last meeting in senior year going similarly.
Everyone
(though I don't think my voc rehab counselor was there and am
pretty
sure I met with her separately) discussed my case and my plans,
and
set my IEP to terminate services at the end of the school year.
It is
pretty painless.

As is the case with any kind of important documentation it needs
to be
shown that the services are ending so everyone's back is covered.

On 5/20/15, Roanna Bacchus via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
 Hi Sami hope things are going well.  I had my last IEP meeting
 when I was a senior in high school.  Both my parents and I
 attended this meeting along with my teachers and my cournselor
 from the state rehab agency for the blind.  We discussed things
 like what kinds of college courses I would be taking and the
 proper equipment that I would need to complete my coursework.
We
 also discussed the grades that I was receiving in my classes at
 that time.  I also had an iep in my junior year of high school
 that I did not attend.  Let me know if you have any other
 questions.

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