School CAPD and SdC Placement ?

From what I can determine, from your rather confusing question: Your daughter has Central Auditory Processing Disorder, which is not the same as hearing-impaired. Instead, a person with CAPD finds it difficult to process language, filter out noises, etc. You got her tested, then requested an IEP for her. You went to the initial meeting, but didn't bring the doctor's recommendation or diagnosis, and the school staff didn't have it. The IEP staff recommended that your daughter now enroll in a Special Day Class (SDC) with a mandatory capacity or ratio of teachers/aides to students. Your daughter would be in a separate classroom suited to her needs with fewer students and more teachers and aides.

But the new school wouldn't provide before or after school care. You paid to enroll her in the first school.

Is it imperative that she attend a Spanish language immersion school? Do you speak Spanish at home?

What did you personally bring to the IEP meeting?

It would seem that your daughter doesn't need an IEP, but rather a 504 plan. The IEP would present the curriculum in an entirely different way from the regular method. But if your daughter has CAPD, she can function within the regular curriculum, but might need accommodations (quieter room, fewer students, a quiet place to take a test, written-rather-than-oral lessons, etc).

Did you request a 504 plan or was that mentioned? Perhaps you should re-evaluate the school plan with that in mind.

I know that IEP meetings and 504 meetings can be very confusing, and frustrating. Sorry. I hope that your daughter gets the right education setting that she needs.

As for advice, don't simply bring a diagnosis from a doctor. Ask your daughter's doctor or specialist to write a brief letter stating what her school day needs to look like. For example: "Julia needs to be in an educational setting where there are fewer students, and where there is a quiet space. She needs to have work given to her in writing, and she should be excused from answering questions aloud. She should write her answers instead. If there is a loud situation in the classroom (such as when all the kids are having free time), she should be excused to the library if she needs to be. She should take tests in a quiet space with written questions/answers, and an aide."

Where we live, schools do not have to necessarily consider outside doctor's results or recommendations. The school only has to rely on their own testing to provide needed educational supports. For example, my son was tested at the U of M hospital and was diagnosed with a very specific type of autism. The school decided they wanted their own "expert" to come into the classroom to observe and diagnose. THEIR expert said that he didn't fall on the spectrum at all. I was present for the majority of the testing and saw that it was not done correctly, but not much I could do about it without fighting a fight that would likely not have the desired outcome anyways. I would win the battle, but lose the war.

Figure out what you think your daughter needs and then use that as your starting point of how to get it. My son still basically got all of the same accommodations that he would have got had they accepted his autism diagnosis right away, but it took longer and we did a lot of tweaking over the years. We had a lot of meetings, phone calls, emails, testing, trying and working, trying and NOT working.

You are getting pretty wound up for 6 years old - this is a long haul, long game kind of issue. I felt like we really hit our "stride" with accommodations around 3rd or 4th grade, but we are still tweaking several times a year and my special needs kids are 17 and 18.5!.

Thank goodness for Elena here. She translated your very poorly written post. If you are going to be dealing with the school, you MUST communicate better with them than you have here.

Look, I understand that you are upset. But if you write to the school system like this, you will get nowhere.

You may not understand the difference in an IEP and a 504 plan. Navigating all of this is difficult. Try to find an advocate who does this for a living, working with school systems on behalf of parents. You will need to pay for this. They will meet with you, understand your child's situation and needs, and go with you to the meeting. They will intercede on your behalf and try to make sure the school is giving your child the right help. They will also stand up to the school. Including asking why they're texting about another IEP case during your meeting time...

With central auditory processing disorder, your daughter needs to in a school with her primary language. Is Spanish her primary language? Talk to the doctor about this. If your family speaks English at home, then you need a school for her that is in English.

This is hard to follow.
What outcome were you hoping for?

This is really hard to follow/understand. If English is your second language maybe you could get a native English speaker to type this question for you. I think you'd get good advice here if we could understand you better :-)

Ok, so i figured out that CAPD it's a type of dyslexia, is an auditory processing disorder. But I'm stuck on what a SDC Cap class is. AND this is a Spanish immersion school? There are a lot of variables here. It sounds like the CAPD would severely hinder her ability to learn in a non native language. Is that what they told you? And what it's your question exactly?

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khairete
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C., your question and follow up are oddly written so it is hard to follow what you're talking about.

I do understand that you went to the IEP meeting and they didn't have the medical paperwork. Did you bring copies with you? If not, remember in the future to have copies of everything with you going forward. Assume whatever can go sideways will, so that you're always prepared when others are not.

(I hope you didn't mean that you gave the originals to the district. If that is what you did, you will need to get another set from the doctor(s). Then keep the originals in a safe place and always make copies for others and yourself.)

If the people at the IEP meeting were texting and ignoring things, perhaps the school isn't that good of a place for your child and changing would be an unexpected blessing? I can't tell enough from your post to really get a read on this part.

First, I'm sorry everyone is giving you a hard time about your post. Critizing parents' writing skills is not what this site is for, but some just can't help themselves.

You need an advocate. I would google to try to find one. I know here in my area, we can hook up with an advocate through the North Bay Regional Center. Google that - they may have an office in your area. You need to understand that the school will try to do the least they can for your child. They are operating under tight budgets and special services cut right into that budget. I've raised my own daughter and now I'm on my fourth grandchild so I have been through the school system many times. The one thing that has held true over the last 30 years, is that the schools do as little as possible so you need to advocate hard for your child. Contact the North Bay Regional Center (if you really are in No. CA) and see what they can do for you. If nothing else, they probably can give you a referral to an advocate. My daughter-in-law used one and she did not have to pay the advocate.