<p>Yes. If there is one thing I can say for sure, after attending a seminar about kids with LD, which I thought was about how to HELP them…the public schools are strapped for funds, and while as PEOPLE, the teachers really do want to help, they are very much encouraged and taught HOW to deny services wherever they can. The more you can offer to do yourself, the better. For example, D uses technology because of writing issues, and the school was very resistant to that…A friend suggested that they didn’t want to pay for the computer and I was like, “WHY would they have to PAY???” It hadn’t crossed my mind. When we went back, with the computer in our hands, and said, “This is what we want her to use,” it was immediately put into the IEP.</p>
<p>Also, never sign an IEP or 504 until you’ve looked it over at home and had a cooling off period and had a chance to sit down with her and ask if “this is everything, everything” you need? In the final analysis, the kids really do know the best what it is they need.</p>
<p>But, the more you can do privately, the better off she will be. (I know, advicey, but some things I wish I’d known earlier :))</p>