Parent Concerns: Daily Schedules

November 7, 2011

ARD/IEP Meeting for Caitlyn XXXX, grade 6A

XXXXXXXXX School of XXXXXXXXxx

Parent Concerns:

Staff to Student Ratio (Autism Supplement)

Daily Schedules (Autism Supplement)

LISD determined that Caitlyn was not in need of this service at LISD on the fifth grade level where classrooms rarely changed/transitions were minimal.

Request for Change to Staff to Student Ratio (IEP) and Daily Schedules (Texas Autism Supplement)

We hereby request that Caitlyn now qualifies and is in need of these service(s).

Specifically, in the areas of "Daily Schedules", substitute teachers or substitute aide, pep rallies etc. We believe this should be handled as part of Special Ed department practices under the Supplemental Aides and services rationale described in the IEP as "would require excessive teacher attention without aide" and cannot be provided by the general education instructor(s) without impacting the general ed classroom student body.

Also following in section "Staff to Student Ratio", we believe Caitlyn qualifies based on needs for "transitions within the school day" including her locker times, beginning of class, and end of class. Again the justification is that this should be provided by Special Education department because to do otherwise "would require excessive teacher attention without aide" as described in Supplemental Services/Aide in the main IEP.