from what I was told they did not feel that he needed an iep for kindergarten, but they feel he needs one for first grade. he does go to speech class twice a week here at school, and occupational three times a week outside of school.
thank you.
If this is the first time you are working with a child with special needs, I would gently suggest that you become familiar with people first language. For some parents like me, it doesn't really bother them if the professionals say Autistic child, Downs child, or special needs child, although I would raise an eyebrow. Many parents though, in my experience more than not, bristle at the professionals using incorrect language. Always say "a student with...." rather than defining the child with his disability like Down's student. They are a student first who happen to have such and such disability. A professional not using people first language just makes them seem ignorant.
Highly unlikely if you are in a public school. Unless your school budget is overflowing and can offer such extensive services without an IEP or 504, most schools will have an IEP for the student under the guidelines of the IDEA act, part B. The IDEA act, part B covers children with disabilities from ages 3 to 21. It would be very beneficial to become somewhat familiar with it so you don't violate any laws.
That is quite true, but the OP said the child is already receiving pretty extensive services. He is receiving speech 2x per week and OT 3x per week, although it was not completely clear whether the OT was private or school funded since it was offsite.
Again true. We always did private OT, Speech and PT for our daughter in addition to what the school provided.
