Our daughter is seven years old. She is in first grade. We just had our first IEP for her today.
She was put in GT and special education for autism, with the specific subcategory of autism in the diagnostic report being asperger syndrome, plus speech impairment for pragmatic social language. The assistant principal volunteered to read "Different Minds" over Christmas break.
The school determined GT because dd only missed two questions on the first grade CoGat. They seemed less interested in her high WISC and WJIII scores.
The meeting continues tomorrow, and the focus of the IEP is on her aspergers, not on her gifts. Do some of you get specific IEP language, accommodations, or services based on giftedness in a special ed IEP? We do not do gifted IEPs in Texas.
If you do have language like that, what does it look like? Thank you for your help. I think we are the first ones in the school to have had a child in gt and special ed at the same time, though I understand that a few years ago there were two other children with a similar profile.
