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If your child is already enrolled in Tuttle Public School
District, then it is vital that you communicate with your child's teacher
regarding your concerns about your child's academic and/or behavior
difficulties. It is also important to speak to the school counselor at
the site your child is attending school. The school counselor and
teacher will document interventions that they have and/or will be attempting
to help your child succeed in the classroom. The school personnel will
keep documentation regarding your child's work habits, behaviors, test scores,
daily work samples, attendance history, etc. to see if the interventions have
an impact on your child's performance.
You are encouraged to take an active role in communicating
with the school personnel regarding the interventions attempted in the
classroom to reinforce the skills at home. We encourage you to play
board games with your child that involve memory, language, and reasoning
skills. Games also assist with attention span and turn taking behaviors.
Read to your child or if your child is reading have your child read to you 20
minutes every evening. Provide a place to study with minimal
distractions. Implement a designated study time. Help plan out a
long-term assignments (break it down in sections to complete). Schedule
fun breaks in your child's homework (e.g., finish your math and we'll bake
some cookies, then we can work on your spelling words). Review material
with your child (quiz them) the night before a test.
Communicate with your child's teacher regarding the homework
load and how long it is taking your child to complete the work. Describe
the behaviors you observe your child display when he/she is doing their
homework. The more information our staff learns about your child the
better they can help meet your child's individual needs.
After implementing the interventions, you and the school
personnel may come to the conclusion that your child may have a
disability. The school personnel will ask for your written permission to
conduct an individual, multidisciplinary evaluation to determine your child's
educational needs and to assist in possible identification of suspected
disabilities which may require special education and related services.
You will be asked to sign a Parent Consent form and the school personnel will
go over your Parent Rights under IDEA. The school personnel will also
indicate in writing on the Parent Consent form, which of the disability
categories under IDEA that they suspect prior to the evaluation. The
evaluation will be at no cost to you, yet we can not conduct the evaluation
without your written consent.
No actions will be taken with respect to the initial
provision of special education and related services to your child before
conducting the individual, multidisciplinary evaluation and determining if
your child is eligible for services. Therefore, your child will remain
in the regular education classroom setting while awaiting the
evaluation. Your child's teacher will continue implementing
interventions and you will need to continue working together with the school
regarding your child's performance. After the testing is completed and
all components are gathered, then school personnel will set up a meeting with
you regarding whether or not your child is eligible for special education and
related services. If your child is identified as having a specific
disability under IDEA, and is eligible for special education and related
services, then you will have the opportunity to participate in the development
of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for your child. Parental
written consent on the IEP is required for the initial placement of your
child. We can not provide special education and related services without
your written consent on the IEP. The school personnel will go over your
Parent Rights again at the eligibility meeting and the IEP meeting
(often these two meetings are held as one meeting, but can be 30 days
apart from the point of eligibility to the development of the IEP).
Please feel free to ask questions and clarification
regarding any portion of the test interpretation, eligibility, and the
development of the IEP. Your input regarding your child is vital to our
school personnel and in the development of the special education and related
services.
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