We just got home from my Daughter’s IEP meeting.
I really don’t think it could have gone any better than it did- seriously it was fantastic.
Everything will pretty much remain the same untill she is due to be re evaluated/ tested at the end of  her 8th grade year or begining of highschool. In the past when my daughter was younger  we  had some stressful IEP meetings where the word no and phrases she doesn’t qualify & we can’t provide that for her were used.The way we handled them was to research & write letters.Sometimes handling them that way helped sometimes not so much. I think there are key reasons why this IEP meeting went so well.One of the reasons simply being middle school is different & the way special ed  works is different than elementary school there are many different factors that aren’t the same.Ofcourse in middle school you have multiple teachers not just one and your sped(special education teacher)
does push ins meaning comes into a regular class room to work with students or may assist in teaching the class with the regular teacher.
Less attention is put on leaving the class room for special individual instruction.My daughter knows that if she needs help all she has to do is ask her teacher or her special education teacher.Knowing that & being confident has helped my daughter so much.She is a natural at self advocating.I couldn’t be more proud of her.No matter what the future may hold for my daughter’s education I am confident that she will be able to not only handle it but thrive as well.
For me as her mother that is all I could ask for – I s to know without a doubt that  she has the  confidence & tools she needs to handle what ever may land in her path.