| I agree with Anonymom's last post. We have really well-intentioned folks in Special Ed but from what I gather, most people have not been able to get what their kids need from them. We have been able to get almost everything we asked for (except for cooperation from the English department, but the Principal and Assistant Superintendent allowed us to circumvent them). A big part of this comes from figuring out from our neuropsychologist (I pay for him rather than trying to get the school to do so) and from advice on sites like Schwablearning (though that is now defunct). I present my understanding of the data and present the things that I think the school system should/can do in response to the data. They are not usually proactive and thus end up saying yes to my extremely reasonable arguments (also, I pay for lots of stuff the school might be required to pay for like a computer and speech recognition software so that they don't feel like they are always being squeezed for money).
I suspect that if I was not so proactive, they might well have found reasons in the meetings to do much less. |