Don't even get me started! It was almost impossible to get DS an IEP in the first place and within a year of him getting it they were talking about taking it away, and kept trying to come up with "fake" progress that seemed to be clear to everyone but me and Dh. It has also proven almost impossible to get OT services onto DS's IEP. The school wouldn't even evaluate him! I finally had to complain to the State, an advocacy group, etc. before they finally agreed to do anything. DS's IEP manager told me it would be pointless to even bother trying to get OT or a "Physically Impaired" IEP because DS would hardly get anything anyway. They don't want to "find" special needs kids OR give them any services. So that's one reason why I'm so frustrated with the concept of someone coming up with a fake disability in order to get services that are already spread so thin among kids who actually have disabilities. They told me the MOST anyone would ever get in our school for OT would be 20 minutes per week.
Yup every time I turned around last year (as you all may remember) the school tried to 'sneak' the accommodations out of the IEP. And the kicker I had to fight tooth and nail to get those accommodation in there in the first place!
Oh and the "therapies?" please ... 20 minutes per week if lucky.
And I didn't even give the school my kid's diagnosis of dysgraphia! They "do not use the word" They do not recognize it and no one understands what it is anyway. And it's the same for dyslexia. Those poor kids get NOTHING. No decent remediation for their dyslexia, just remedial reading classes that do not help and, again - the school does not "recognize" dyslexia. They do not even use the word! How in the word does having a diagnosis of an LD help when the schools do not recognize the LDS in the first place?!
I really think they is a lot of ignorance and prejudice going here, i.e., the erroneous belief that a disability is some kid of 'meal ticket.' I can assure you it is not.
