Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Twice Exceptional How many people on an IEP team?

...and 10 to turn the ladder?

IEP team= More than a baseball team, fewer than a football team including its second and third-string players.

Geo's advice is good. Ultimately, it's really hard to tighten up accommodations so that they are foolproof, but it's worth trying.

HK, I use those approaches as well, but generally ifI know for certain the source of the problem. If I'm not 100% sure everyone sees the same problem and interprets it the same, I don't presume anything at the outset, ask for an explanation, and then launch into your sequence...

I think there were 500 people on DS's IEP team. Jk. Seriously, 11 sounds about right. It's just... silly. There is a lot of meeting, discussing, strategizing, red tape analysis, etc, but not much actual change.

Once we started having multiple people from central office attend our meetings we outgrew the school's conference room.

At the last meeting of 1st grade DH, consultant and I were not allowed to enter the room until after the entire school/district team had taken their seats and they didn't leave space at the table for us. Yeah - the 3 of us were given literally about 6" total at the corner of the table. And no, I did not let that pass without comment. Frequent comment.

For 2nd grade they moved us to the media room so everyone had plenty of space to spread out. Worked great until the one meeting they decided maybe we should move back to the conference room. That was the one where the principal stormed out. Only problem was she was stuck on the far side of the table and had to shimmy past a half dozen people to get to the door. It really was unfortunate for her that DH, consultant and I were all in between her and the door as she had her little tantrum.

After that we ALWAYS used the bigger room. Hmmm... Wonder why...

Oh, Pemberley. LOL. Glad you're out of there...

Actually, you may collect a few more as your child gets older. We routinely have more than that. However, each person attending actually has something to report or contribute. All the therapists have to be there: OT, PT and speech. All the different types of teachers should be there: general ed., special ed., gifted ed. The nurse, counselor, social worker and psychologist often needs to be there. An adminstrator should be there along with the IEP chair. Then you have the parents and even the student. On occasion, the aide or other individuals may be invited. The numbers add up.

I have a feeling they are going to want to do more of an eval. Because the teacher is VERY into every single report that we have on DS. I gave her a huge stack of records today and she didn't look happy that I didn't have anything before age 24 months. I hope she doesn't go crazy and try to diagnose him with something he doesn't have. Compare this to other school where they stuffed the neuropsych report into a file and barely looked at it.

Pemberley, what a horrid situation. Every time I complain about something, someone else gets added to the IEP. They know I am onto them and that they are not doing basic legal things. The old school doesn't know how to write a 504 plan for gods sakes. As in they literally DO NOT WRITE THEM. Pretty soon the district superintendent will be at our meetings.

Our GIEP team meetings typically include DH (if he can get time off work) and I plus the principal, primary teacher, gifted teacher, and school psych. If other secondary teachers need to be involved they sort of rotate in and out when someone can cover their class. Our last meeting was primary teacher, gifted teacher and me - that's it. Now that I think about it the school counselor hasn't even ever sat in on a meeting. One would think he/she should be there.

I guess if all the teachers that have DD in class during the day were all at the meeting then there would be about 10-11 total (including DH and I).

Our IEP meeting had the principal, guidance counselor, gifted teacher, school Psych, reading specialist and the teacher, in addition to DH and myself.