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Help Needed Setting Priorities for IEP Meeting

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Our school just completed a 3 month team evaluation on our 9 y.o. daughter, and during the IEP meeting, as the specialists started rattling off the myriad of learning disabilities they discovered, I realized that I was out of my league and could not participate at setting goals when I didn’t understand all the disabilities and what appropriate remedies or interventions would be. We postponed the second half of the IEP meeting for another week.In addition to some auditory processing problems, which we had suspected, we learned that she has a very serious visual processing problem, which apparently is having a major impact on her learning. I would like to be an active participant in her IEP, but I’m not even sure where to start. Where do I go to determine — based on her test scores — what she needs to remediate. And with children who have a host of disabilities, how does one prioritize? Is there anyone reading this that might have a clue what is most important by looking at her test scores?Stymied, and greatful for any advice you might have! Barb

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