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<blockquote data-quote="startingfresh" data-source="post: 752828" data-attributes="member: 22380">iamtiredandsad2, this is great information and I have a similar story! I am very thankful that I was able to get my son a 504 plan back when he began to struggle in 6th grade. I got a lot of negative responses from teachers as well that this would just placate his laziness, etc. I pushed forward regardless. Someone pointed me to Wrightslaw.com which was extremely helpful in helping me help my son.&nbsp; The wrightslaw website is filled with special education advice. I highly recommend checking it out if you need to advocate for a family member.&nbsp; Fast forward to his senior year when he too refused to spend a full day in school. He was tardy nearly every day and often left school.&nbsp; His anxiety and depression was crippling. If he made it to school, he sat in class refusing to talk or do anything other than stare off or read a book.&nbsp; His therapist wrote a letter requesting he be on homebound education and we called for an emergency 504 meeting. Between this letter from his therapist and his in place 504, they set him up with homebound education to help him finish the year. A teacher came to our home everyday and kept him on track. He still had to meet all the requirements from the county and state to graduate and some of it was just ridiculous electives. One of the electives was hands on building so we had to get really creative to meet the assignment requirements. But at this point, believe me, they wanted him to graduate as much as we did.&nbsp; His teacher was kind and encouraging. He was able to graduate on time .&nbsp; I realize that a 504 is accommodations not modifications but I believe since he had the 504, he was a student the faculty knew well and was used to thinking outside the box for him. And the letter from the doctor outlined what he needed to be well. We are now 2 years out from that time and my son is doing much better. He climbed out of the dark hole with loads of help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="startingfresh, post: 752828, member: 22380"] iamtiredandsad2, this is great information and I have a similar story! I am very thankful that I was able to get my son a 504 plan back when he began to struggle in 6th grade. I got a lot of negative responses from teachers as well that this would just placate his laziness, etc. I pushed forward regardless. Someone pointed me to Wrightslaw.com which was extremely helpful in helping me help my son. The wrightslaw website is filled with special education advice. I highly recommend checking it out if you need to advocate for a family member. Fast forward to his senior year when he too refused to spend a full day in school. He was tardy nearly every day and often left school. His anxiety and depression was crippling. If he made it to school, he sat in class refusing to talk or do anything other than stare off or read a book. His therapist wrote a letter requesting he be on homebound education and we called for an emergency 504 meeting. Between this letter from his therapist and his in place 504, they set him up with homebound education to help him finish the year. A teacher came to our home everyday and kept him on track. He still had to meet all the requirements from the county and state to graduate and some of it was just ridiculous electives. One of the electives was hands on building so we had to get really creative to meet the assignment requirements. But at this point, believe me, they wanted him to graduate as much as we did. His teacher was kind and encouraging. He was able to graduate on time . I realize that a 504 is accommodations not modifications but I believe since he had the 504, he was a student the faculty knew well and was used to thinking outside the box for him. And the letter from the doctor outlined what he needed to be well. We are now 2 years out from that time and my son is doing much better. He climbed out of the dark hole with loads of help. [/QUOTE]

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