We have been in a private Christian school for 9 years and just moved to public school in September. They conducted the evaluations and determined that my son qualifies for Special Ed Assistance. They will give us his IEP on Friday. Since I've never seen one, what shoudl I expect? The public school has been great so far. I just don't know what an IEP even looks like, much less what it should contain.

Has anyone had a typical buddy written in their IEP? Like a social goal where their kid was paired with another student to help them practice making friends or help ease anxiety around social situations at school? Can you tell me what that looked like? I’m looking for ideas.

My son Daniel is entered Pre-k ESE January 2013. The new school year has started and Daniel will be attending the same school but will have a new teacher. His new Pre-k teacher transferred from another school, has yet to receive Daniels IEP. She says it is an issue with the school board. I have gladly offered her my copy from last year. Do we have to wait until he goes to kindergarten before we get a knew IEP? He is very high functioning and has been placed with similar high functioning… read more

Hello. My autistic son turned 7 and I know he’s supposed to start school. The schools in our area do not have enough support/resource for him. He was referred to a private school for autism but he is on the waiting list and 4th in that list. They said realistically it may take 4 years to make it to the top of the list. What do we do in the meantime? If he can’t start school until years later, how will he be at “grade level”? Also, how does grade level and state testing work with children who… read more

hello,
my son is 4 years old and on the spectrum. Im having a hard time finding an elementary school for him. He starts kindergarten in September and I feel like every school I call for open house never knows how to answer any questions about children with autism. They're very dismissive and I'm kind of getting discouraged. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Hi my son is 7 years old and has been in ABA program for 4 years. He just started his 2nd grade and is now in LLD program. My wife and I feel that my son needs to be integrated/shouldve been more integrated into gen ed class more to be able to have him learn with his peers.. so that he doesnt fall too behind and later have mental emotional issue when he starts to realize that he cannot do what other peers do in their classroom or also in non classroom setting
Schools seems to be not setting… read more

My son is 6th grade HFA. We have just completed assessment for Special Ed, and the school wants to categorize him under Emotional Disturbance with Autism secondary. We maintain his emotional issues stem from Autism, but the definition of Autism in IDEA is very limited. We've been told by others that a label of ED can mean different services (not targeted at Autism). My son DOES have emotional issues, we don't deny that. Does anybody know if treating emotional issues is different if there are… read more

I am in CA. My son is in kinder (hf asd/adhd). I had an IEP meeting on Thursday & was told IEP is refused since he is near passing grade level & not failing. The issue is he is sitting under a table during most class time if not chosen to be a helper. He has also had a min. Of 5 head injuries since October at school. Tripping, lack of focus/excitement, kicked, head butted (lack of awareness of spatial distance/personal space/lacking social cues
I've been in tears daily & don't know how to get… read more

If you move from one state to another at what time is the IEP in the new state refreshed? We moved from MD to MA and MA did not start his speech therapy until 4 month later (by the time that they got "organized"). They also followed a completely different curriculum type meaning that my child did not have the opportunity to receive his IEP "goals" counting, naming body parts, etc.

We just had his IEP meeting and it talked about next steps? However there was no discussion about goals met… read more

please tell me what services are out their and how should they be written into a iep so they are measureable