DS is in third grade and has OT services in his IEP. He has DCD and poor motor skills. His classroom writing is very poor or illegible. The IEP team wants to drop direct OT services and do 30 min.per month exploring AT options.
I would not sign the IEP. So now they want a "conciliation conference". They said that they will refer him for an AT eval (after I gave them wrightslaw articles) but I think they still want to take direct OT services out of the IEP.
Am I correct in thinking this is totally inappropriate? An OT would work on the handwriting/fine motor issues, right? If she does not work with him, who would? If this is inappropriate I don't think a "conciliation conference" is going to be helpful. I have already explained in great deal what the concerns are, gave them samples of classroom work, etc. Even his written experssion is going backwards badly. He was doing nicely in first grade when it came to writing paragraphs with punctuation, spaces, main ideas and details, etc. They appear to still be working on that two years later and his writing is now worse!
My options seem to be
1) give up at least the rest of the year, homeschool, and try to work with him myself, getting private therapies.
2) request something like mediation and try to convince or force people they should work with him when they clearly don't want to.
