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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 750428" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Special Education law provides help for children before they enter kindergarten. You are being deceived.</p><p></p><p>I will tell you my experience which is based upon being a parent as well as a psychologist working in schools, who participated in IEP teams.</p><p></p><p>My son got an IEP in Kindergarten.</p><p></p><p>Schools try to discourage parents from security protection and intervention for their child, trying to minimize expenses. They do this to the extent that they break the law.</p><p></p><p>There are parent advocates (free, in your community) who will advise and support you and go with you to the IEP team meeting. There are also free legal aid societies that specialize in special education law and disability rights. We did this.</p><p></p><p>You may have to take your grandson to a pediatrician, to get a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD or to a regional Children's Hospital Child Development Center to get a neuropsychological exam in order to force the school to provide services and protections. <em>If you are referred by the child's pediatrician, insurance should pay.</em></p><p></p><p>If he does not have an IEP (Special Education) the school can say it is purely behavior and they can discriminate against him. With the IEP it is very, very hard to do this. They will have provide services up to including non-public schools for free (including transportation). This is why they deceive and conceal and fight.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to get aggressive. You just have to know your rights. If the MD diagnoses ADHD you don't have to give the medication. I gave my son the Ritalin and I regret it. I listened to the school. At that point I respected their expertise. I don't anymore.</p><p></p><p>My son's experience (and my own) was just as you describe. My son behaved beautifully at home. He got very anxious at school. And over-stimulated. Once when he was about 3 I took him to a camp. He was running with the kids and excited and he bit another child. I was mortified. This never happened again.</p><p></p><p>From what you write these do not appear to be serious problems. They seem minor. But the school does not want to deal with ANY problems. They want quiet, controlled and timid children. The rest they try to label as "problems."</p><p></p><p>I am exaggerating to make a point. It may not be this bad, but it's bad enough. My son is 25 years out of kindergarten. So, maybe, it is miraculously better. I doubt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 750428, member: 18958"] Special Education law provides help for children before they enter kindergarten. You are being deceived. I will tell you my experience which is based upon being a parent as well as a psychologist working in schools, who participated in IEP teams. My son got an IEP in Kindergarten. Schools try to discourage parents from security protection and intervention for their child, trying to minimize expenses. They do this to the extent that they break the law. There are parent advocates (free, in your community) who will advise and support you and go with you to the IEP team meeting. There are also free legal aid societies that specialize in special education law and disability rights. We did this. You may have to take your grandson to a pediatrician, to get a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD or to a regional Children's Hospital Child Development Center to get a neuropsychological exam in order to force the school to provide services and protections. [I]If you are referred by the child's pediatrician, insurance should pay.[/I] If he does not have an IEP (Special Education) the school can say it is purely behavior and they can discriminate against him. With the IEP it is very, very hard to do this. They will have provide services up to including non-public schools for free (including transportation). This is why they deceive and conceal and fight. You don't have to get aggressive. You just have to know your rights. If the MD diagnoses ADHD you don't have to give the medication. I gave my son the Ritalin and I regret it. I listened to the school. At that point I respected their expertise. I don't anymore. My son's experience (and my own) was just as you describe. My son behaved beautifully at home. He got very anxious at school. And over-stimulated. Once when he was about 3 I took him to a camp. He was running with the kids and excited and he bit another child. I was mortified. This never happened again. From what you write these do not appear to be serious problems. They seem minor. But the school does not want to deal with ANY problems. They want quiet, controlled and timid children. The rest they try to label as "problems." I am exaggerating to make a point. It may not be this bad, but it's bad enough. My son is 25 years out of kindergarten. So, maybe, it is miraculously better. I doubt it. [/QUOTE]
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