Pemberley
I would second or third DeeDee's point about the teacher (I think it was DeeDee, these posts are long
) I am almost embarrassed to relate my DS's situation because it so opposite to yours, but the basic difference once you get past the delays in getting what your DD needs is the teacher and the principal. You can't do anything about the principal but I would push regarding the teacher. DS is in 1st in an accelerated gifted school, where his inability to write at grade level let alone gifted level is stark. I just got an email from the teacher saying she and the OT want him to start keyboarding on the iPad and they will be setting up a system of what work he will write and what he will type. Based on stuff seen here I was planning to start advocating for this prior to the testing and increased writing in 3rd and 4th and here the teacher is taking the intiative and saying lets start now. And they did it specifically to get his disability out of his way in terms of expressing himself. This teacher is not just hostile to her disbilities but also to her accommodations, that just can't be tolerated. The teacher you are dealing with is a problem on so many levels but to not even recognize and provide accommodation when the para is out, really needs to be addressed.
I hope diction really works out, a member of my family swears by it, but it doesn't work for DS - it can't understand him! He of course loves using the voice recognition for dictionary.com because it comes up with such strange things based on what it thinks he said!!
DeHe
