Posted Feb 11, 2010 at 2:25:39 PM
Subject: Reading and Math LD
I am currently workign on getting an appropriate IEP in place for my 10 year old son who has multiple issues including dyslexia, math disability and executive functioning deficits. I am getting closer to achieving what I feel to be an adequate service plan for his reading. My current problem is getting math services in place. My 10 year old 4th grader tests as having math facts on a 1.6 grade level and applications on a 2.4 grade level. My issue is that his current remediation plan is not addressing his deficit of basic math facts. Instead they are working on more advanced math with the use of charts, etc to compensate for his lack of knowledge in basis skills. He is unable to competently add and subtract single digits, and unable to mulitply or divive and demonstrated many other problems with basic number sense. His teachers advise me that "not all children learn these" and that as an adult "he can use a calculator" to get by. Their focus is teaching the process of math and have effectively given up on helping him to gain these basic skills. He is being taught touch math to better allow him to participate in mandatory state testing. He does has an average IQ despite multiple learning disabilities and I have not been informed in any way that he is unable to learn these skills. Does refusal to provide services to teach him basic math skills constitute a denial of FAPE?
[Modified by: DPGR on February 11, 2010 02:26 PM]