IEP's

bumpuser511563

What was the most IEP meetings you have had in a single school year?

I am going to my 7th IEP meeting on Wednesday. This one is the transition IEP and hopefully the last one for the year.

All the other IEP meetings were over the Behavior Intervention Plan, teacher not writing good ABC reports and all the wording had to be fixed several times in the BIP.

TIA

MirandaHobbes

Most years we've had two, beginning of the year and end of the year/transition. This year (kindy) we had two; one was a combo of goal setting and our 3 year eval, which required a planning meeting and then the results; they combined the BIP with that. We have received two IEP progress reports but no meeting.  I asked about a transitions IEP meeting for first grade and was told they don't do them, that the team meets without the parents and discusses transition with the first grade teacher. Which as I type it seems really strange. Hmm.. I wonder if they do goal setting in the fall of the year.

@SailorSaturn what do you mean by not writing good ABC reports? We had some major issues around daily sheets. The ones done by his previous teacher were (in hindsight) terrible and were causing DS a lot of anxiety. For example, she'd have him circle behaviors he had had during the day, even if negative, like yelling, shouting, or "not looking people in the eye." Then the teacher would provide a long laundry list of all the negative things DS had done throughout the day with zero input on nuts and bolts stuff like, what did he learn? Did he go to the library? The negativity escalated until I called a BIP when it tapered off. He has a new teacher (a sub) whose approach is totally different- she sends an email to each parent every day with exactly what lessons they are working on and then adds individual comments for each kid like "DS struggled with this concept" or "DS did great on his story map but could practice his poems. I'd suggest working with him like this.." If I hadn't seen her alternate approach I wouldn't have known what to look for. It's been a breath of fresh air.

bumpuser511563

Miranda, that does seem odd to have a transition iep without you. Are you going to request to be there?

Here is an ABC report gone wrong. There is no antecedent and the consequence was a CPI hold. Teacher explained there was only so much space and claimed that they did all the consequences before the CPI.

In my opinion, anything that is not written down did not happen.

funchicken

-auntie- said:

@MirandaHobbs

How can they have an IEP meeting without part of the CSE present. You are a part of that team.

They can do a general planning meetings where they start to set up classes and make recommendations about which kids should be kept together/apart, etc.

This is what our team is doing.  We gave them our input about a few things and requested that DD be in the same class as one of her close friends.  Her current accommodations will remain in place, and we're planning to meet at the start of the school year.

T answer the OP:  We had 2 meetings this year, but this was the first year that DD has had an IEP.

MirandaHobbes

Sailor Saturn said:

Miranda, that does seem odd to have a transition iep without you. Are you going to request to be there?

Here is an ABC report gone wrong. There is no antecedent and the consequence was a CPI hold. Teacher explained there was only so much space and claimed that they did all the consequences before the CPI.

In my opinion, anything that is not written down did not happen.

I think I'm getting my vernacular wrong- I don't think it is an IEP meeting (e.g. no goals/accomodations will be discussed or modified) but rather planning which teacher he fits with and which students he should avoid. I'll fill out the form and ask more questions.

RE: the ABC form- that sucks.. and I agree, I'm not taking your word for it if you put my kid in a hold and didn't document why.

bumpuser511563

MirandaHobbes said:

Sailor Saturn said:

Miranda, that does seem odd to have a transition iep without you. Are you going to request to be there?

Here is an ABC report gone wrong. There is no antecedent and the consequence was a CPI hold. Teacher explained there was only so much space and claimed that they did all the consequences before the CPI.

In my opinion, anything that is not written down did not happen.

I think I'm getting my vernacular wrong- I don't think it is an IEP meeting (e.g. no goals/accomodations will be discussed or modified) but rather planning which teacher he fits with and which students he should avoid. I'll fill out the form and ask more questions.

RE: the ABC form- that sucks.. and I agree, I'm not taking your word for it if you put my kid in a hold and didn't document why.

Hmm. This sounds like a meeting they have prior to the transition iep with you.