eden98
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Joined: Apr 30, 2012
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: How do you get out of Special Education? |
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My younger brother is in Special Education classes at his middle school. He has Asperger's Syndrome like me. He thinks the teachers are too condescending and the curriculum is too simple. He is in two general education classes: Science Honors with a 98% and Algebra with 95%. The reason he is in Special Education is that in 6th grade, he had emotional outbursts, but now he does not.
How do you get out of Special Education? He wants to go to a good university, and that dream can not be realized when placed in Special Education. |
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Delphiki
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Joined: Apr 15, 2012
Age: 23
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Location: My own version of reality
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Why would that limit being able to go to a "good" school (most schools are good)? a lot of people with aspergers need help at something like a disability center when they are at college. In 5th grade I just refused to keep going to special ed. I had been in special ed for speech since preschool. My speech issue is not noticeable to others most of the time now, there ws no reason for me to still be in it.
And eden98 check the dates on threads before posting, there is no reason to revive 6 year old threads. Not trying to be mean, so sorry if you take it that way. |
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LennytheWicked
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First thing's first; his parents have to say, "Our child doesn't need an IEP." To get out of special ed, an IEP drop is pretty much essential. If he has a 504, drop that too.
I remember that apparently I scored low on the processing part of an IQ test, and they tried to tell me that learning was slow for me, to which I laughed. They let me retake the portion of the IQ test and I got 110 on it, so they let me drop the strive class. This was between middle school and high school; I was able to drop special ed before freshman year, and my IEP at my sophomore year.
DEFINITELY get him out of special ed; those classes look really bad on a transcript. It's like having a bunch of loop math classes. |
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scubasteve
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Age: 28
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Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Assuming you live in the United States...
If your parents feel his placement is not appropriate, (and it sounds like this is the case,) they can request a reevaluation. The school will be required to place him in what they judge to be the "least restrictive environment" (the closest to gen ed in which a student can succeed.)
He does not have to lose the IEP or 504 to be removed from special ed classes. Rather, if an IEP team agrees that he can succeed in a general class, they would place him in a general class with the IEP. This way, he may still be eligible for related services and test accommodations, even though he is in a general ed class. |
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hollowfields
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| How I got out of special ed in my middle school was by talking to my parents, they contacted the regular teachers and the special ed teachers and then things worked great. This was in the Vigo County School Corporation in Indiana. |
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