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Dyslexia: Oh, No You Didn’t…

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Go ahead, say this with a finger wag and a head bob and then fantasize about doing that during an IEP meeting. It’ll be fun. Ok, so I had a little fun with the title when thinking about all of the crazy things I have heard in IEPs lately and I wanted to make you smile and relieve some IEP stress; I could spend all my time lambasting people, but I thought it would be more productive if I used the comments as a springboard to describe what the underlying problem is when you hear these types of comments and how they help you advocate for a child with dyslexia (how is that for a run-on sentence I couldn’t figure out how to fix – Oh, no I didn’t).

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Dear IEP Team

Dear IEP Team by Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley from the Dyslexia Training Institute

Dear IEP Team by Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley from the Dyslexia Training Institute (Photo by Julie Jordan Scott/flickr)

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Dear IEP Team:

Wow. That was a heck of an IEP meeting, right? I know having an advocate at these meetings always makes the meetings a little (or a lot) longer and if you are anything like me, you are exhausted when they are done. I hope you don’t take the presence of an advocate as a signal that there is a ‘fight’ to be had or that we intend to play the blame game with the school.

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