http://thegao.org/news-resources/helpful-links/...

Copy and paste link, good resource.

Our school district was the same way. Hold your ground and make sure to bring reports from former OT, etc. who gave the services at the former school.

We held firm and our son graduated from high school last year, works at our local grocery store (although we still have a few issues there at times), and attends the local community college (and actually gets up and drives there everyday).

Also, this year, our 16y son is still in speech. I will say he has made great strides over the past year (new speech therapist) but still isn't where he should be with certain sounds in the middle of words. At his meeting this year the school wanted to dismiss him from special education --- although they were willing to give him speech therapy. Their thought was that is might somehow be a disadvantage for him to be in special ed when he applies for college. Nice try, but no, he qualifies for special ed, he will be in special ed and thankfully there is a new teacher at the school that questioned why they would ever suggest a college would discriminate based on speech problems if his grades/test scores were good enough.

Good Luck --- be strong ---- provide supportive proof

I would not sign the IEP and file a dispute or whatever it is called. I was able to get more out of the school system after fighting for it. The other thing I find about IEP's at least here in Los Angeles, is that they are really only concerned with how the child is doing academically and how they behave at school.