Are these two separate individuals: The district 504 coordinator who you describe as a helpful advocate, and to whom you have drafted this e-mail... and the advocate with whom you are meeting on Friday?
It seems to be a helpful strategy, if you are working with an outside advocate, to have the outside advocate help manage your communications with the school... so that you do not end up working at crossed purposes.
Yes, two different individuals. The agency advocate stated they will not "do the work" re: communication with the school but would help me learn to do it.
I see your point about crossed-purposes. The agency advocate asked me what my goals are for DS and when I thought about it, they are A) to have a better understanding of what we need to work on, specifically and B) to have written guidelines for the teachers that are specific, in terms of how assignments and behavior issues are accommodated. I thought by going ahead and talking to district advocate (and mentioning still wanting ed eval) it might put us at the top of her list when it's time for 504 review in the fall. This district 504 coordinator has been extraordinarily helpful with two other friends' extraordinarily 2E kids (three children in all). She really seems to *get it.*
I don't think the neuropsych report will reflect anything as far as learning challenges (but I don't know, for sure--I guess it seems like everyone knowledgeable here knows a lot about what IQ scores might indicate). I think we will just have clarification on dx and a WISC-V report, and recommendations.
