How To Be Ready For An IEP Meeting
Running your first or last IEP can feel so exhausting and overwhelming. You do not need to feel this way. Everyone is just as anxious. Remember everyone in that room ultimately wants what is best for the student.
Running your first or last IEP can feel so exhausting and overwhelming. You do not need to feel this way. Everyone is just as anxious. Remember everyone in that room ultimately wants what is best for the student.
Let’s start this off very bluntly because I do think there are things you should know about Autism. I am not a medical doctor, nor a behavioral analyst. I am a certified special education teacher with 10 years of experience working with individuals with autism.
What I hope you take away from sharing these intimate details as an undiagnosed autistic child is to check in with all of your students, but also your student that has a reputation of “being quiet” or is viewed as a “model student”. It’s important to look beyond what is physically in front of you, and to learn how to support needs that are expressed invisibly.
The criteria she is talking about are the ten brain domains affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. We’ve been mislead as to how FASD is caused. FASD isn’t caused purely by alcoholism. We now know that even small amounts of alcohol, early in pregnancy, can cause differences.
A staggering 20% percent of Americans have dyslexia that is 14.5 to 43.5 million. Dyslexia is a learning disability that makes it difficult to read, write, and spell no matter how hard the person tries or intelligent he or she is. This makes it difficult to comprehend while reading and this can impede vocabulary growth.
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