I have to admit that I'm a bit out of touch with today's IEPs -- my son has been on a 504 since junior high, and so I haven't had to deal with what was (for us) a draconian process. And so I wonder -- have IEPs and how they are executed changed over the last few years?
As a point of reference -- when I first met with our IEP team in 1996, the director of special ed sat across a conference table -- with 7 other school officials -- and explained to me, calmly, that Asperger's Syndrome was simply "the diagnosis du jour" and that IEPs were for "children in wheelchairs". Thus began my struggle with the public school system, their efforts to minimize the issues my son faced, their refusal (illegal as it was) to evaluate him for OT, and their attempt on two different occasions to DQ (disqualify) him and remove him from an IEP.
Please tell me things have changed!
