Ah the iPad situation...
We bought one ourselves and DD carries it back and forth to school everyday. We also sent in iTunes cards and advised the school to load anything and everything they think might be helpful. No restrictions. They still haven't figured out how to load everything she needs on the district iPad but they have ours as a back up. As silly as it sounds she uses both each day and they still haven't figured out how to provide audio access to the text they are using for the 8th grade reading group. The district asked us to sign a release for DD to carry their iPad home and/or for them to load the text on to ours. We have declined. After all we've been through with them we are not signing any kind of release or waiver for them. Nope - not gonna happen.
Consultant approached district's director of pupil personnel services recommending that they just reimburse us for the cost of the machine we provided and take theirs back, giving it to someone else in the district. Their response was that no one else in the district (a district with 6000+ students...) would use it. DD is apparently the only one.
So a silly and cumbersome solution that cost us yet another $1000 but at least it seems to be getting DD what she needs. The irony is that we are also working a solution to getting Dragon Dictation to work for her but that will need a desktop machine - the program can't work for her on an iPad. Luckily we have both a desk top and a lap top for home use so won't need to be spending even more.
