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Hi all,
I'm a third grade teacher and am currently taking master's courses in early childhood education. One of my classes is a special education class and I have an assignment to ask parents two questions about their feelings regarding the IEP process. If you could help me out by responding to my questions, it would be greatly appreciated!
Were you overwhelmed by the amount of people at your child's initial IEP meeting?
Have you ever called an IEP meeting on your own? What were your reasons for calling it?
Thank you so much for your support! I think that this website is fantastic!
AZteacher23
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What is an IEP meeting .. is it an American term?
I suspect its some sort of meeting to disccuss ways of helping children with learning disabilities or behavioural problems but Im not sure.. we do also have a parents board here so if youve not done so already may be wort posting there too.This is a reply to this message.
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Myrtlemaid,
An IEP is an Individual/Individualized Education Plan.
It's Individual in the UK and Canada, Individualised in the USA.
So it covers three countries UK, US or Canada. I'd say the poster is in US or Canada though since the UK does not have a 3rd grade.
It's basically a plan written out for individual disabled children to ensure that they get access to an education without restrictions or bias because of their disability.
AZteacher23,
Didn't your instructors give you some basis for where to start looking? You might want to look around in your local area for disabled children's groups, as has been said the ouch parents board would be a better place for this type of question.This is a reply to this message.
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Unless you are at an incredibly early stage in your course then the information you get via this method will be of absolutely no use in a good quality masters investigation as you have not selected a sample based on age, location, socio-economic status, type of disability of the child for whom an IEP is being compiled and other demographic distribution. If you are looking for the very earliest of preliminary information to help you narrow down your research question then our general experiences (rather than specific questions) could be helpful. If you have decided on your research area and this is part of your research, please go and talk to your research supervisor.
You will probably be sent a copy of our informal student policy by someone more on the ball with that side of things, but please, get more help with this.This is a reply to this message.
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Based on your username, I'm guessing you're in Arizona in the US. In that case, I'd suggest you look for another board in the US or actually look for groups in your area (even better!) where you can meet someone face to face or over the phone to talk to them. This board (and I think this is especially true when it comes to the parents who post here) is mainly UK. Also, a lot of UK/US disability terminology is different and if you don't have a firm basis in both, may be confusing to you and your class. (The really common one is that in the US "person with a disability" is preferred an in the UK "disabled person" is preferred, but "disabled person" can be very offensive to some disability rights people in the US)
I'm in the US, but I'm have a disability and never had an IEP (at the point that my disability was severe enough to possibly need one, I was in a private school so it was a moot point). I know there are plenty of other sites out there for parents of kids with disabilities with many more American users and you might want to try one of those instead.This is a reply to this message.
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