Where do you have your child cored?

[lisacap]

I am not saying I don't want them to evaluate him, what I am saying is who are they to say in order for him to have a academic evaulation he has to be put back in a special ed program, be evaluated for OT PT and speech, when I am not looking for the public schools to be doing any of those services, only to be doing the academic services that he needs...because he has CP doesn't mean that he belongs in a special ed class room, I think that, that she be my decision to make, not theirs.

[charliegirl]

As long as you live in the school district, they have to do the evaluation whether your child attends school in that district or not. They can't force you to put your child in public school in order to get one done.

[misty]

Oh I misunderstood you Lisa. It should be YOUR decision & no one elses. I think you need to contact an advocate & let them help you get what YOU want for Justin. Once you have an advocate, school districts usually stop trying to bully you into doing what THEY want you to do.

[annem]

charliegirl said:

I think Annem is thinking of Irlen syndrome which is similar to dyslexia. Colored overlays or using a colored paper often makes reading easier.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopic_Sensitivity_Syndrome

Irlen syndrome is sometimes categorised as a form of dyslexia. However, bestselling autistic author, Donna Williams, in her book Like Colour To The Blind wrote about her experience of tinted lenses after being diagnosed with scotopic sensitivity. In this book she described the lenses as enabling her to have cohesive, unfragmented vision, able to see faces, bodies and objects as a whole for the first time and reducing the extremity of experiences such as meaning-blindness, face blindness, inability to learn to read facial expression and body language and the social consequences of these impairments.

Well ... I don't know very much about the Irlen syndrome at all ... but I do know that our dyslexic students (at the college I work at) generally all find it much easier to read on coloured paper ... particularly blue .... along with "Comic Sans" font ... rather than the traditional ariel etc...

[misty]

Interesting. I googled this & heres what I found:

One of the strategies that is extremely helpful for students with dyslexia or other visual perception problems, is the use of NRSIÒ Colored Overlays. Our colored overlays can eliminate the perceptual problems many of these children face every day. As stated in The Reading Teacher: "frequencies [of wavelengths of light] that may cause perceptual distortion are eliminated before they reach the retina and the brain. As a result, visual information may be more effectively analyzed." (Rickelman & Henk, The Reading Teacher, 1990).

This particular site sells the overlays, but there are interesting graphics showing what letters look like to dyslexic students.

www.nrsi.com/parent_corner_colored_overlays.html

[annem]

Thanks Misty for finding that !! ... That explains really well what I was trying to explain but not very well !!