blackcat, I feel your pain. My DS8 has stuttering and speech fluency issues and I've been fighting for 2.5 years to get an appropriate IEP and am currently looking into hiring an advocate to help me.
How has your child's school and teachers handled reading? Do they recognize your child's reading level?
My DS8's school insists on using oral reading fluency assessments (our school uses aimsweb) even though I've given them copies articles from speech associations and even the section of the aimsweb scoring guide that says ...
"Like any other test, R–CBM may be inappropriate for some students. For students with certain speech impairments (e.g., moderate to severe stuttering disorder), ..., R–CBM may not be a valid measure of reading."
I've read articles on the subject that has also mentioned apraxia is a problem with these types of assessments.
Common sense would tell you that any child with a speech disorder will be underscored on an oral reading assessment. Yet, in 2.5 years I've been unable to get the school to recognize this.
