Special Education, Legal & Planning
30 more ridiculous comments heard at an IEP Meeting
Last week Dennise Goldberg a special education advocate and mother of a child with special needs shared the Top Ten Most Ridiculous Comments Heard at an IEP Meeting. Apparently many parents can relate as the post has been shared over 1,000 times and over 50 parents shared their own IEP experiences. We took 30 of these comments and are re-posting them here for you to read, share and comment on. Karen Wang We've heard some good ones, too:- “From my perspective, there is no personality. There is only behavior.”
- “We don’t consider reading to be a significant skill at this age.” (Child was 19 months old and reading, along with many other autistic traits.)
- “He will receive the same services no matter what the diagnosis is.” (We moved to a different school district after that one; all subsequent IEPs have been wonderful since then.)
- “He compensates well enough with his left hand, he doesn’t need therapy to improve his right hand.”
- “If your Dr told you that with his neurological impairment that he would ever be fully functional then they were lying to you.”
- “He is independent with putting his coat on, you just have to hold it open for him. He is independent pulling his pants up you just have to straighten them out for him before he can pull them up.” (I am pretty sure that is ASSISTED)
Kryste Lillquist
Here’s my favorite….Yes we know your daughter is deaf and has a cochlear implant…but we are going to teach her to communicate with pictures and light swiches…LOL
A cochlear implant gives you hearing, my daughter is now a 1st grader and speaking and listening beautifully!