Floy Fague: Public schools are required to follow IEP's under federal laws because they recieve money from the federal government. Under those laws, students can receive services throught the public schools up until they graduate or until the age of 21 (depending on the disability and what the child's educational needs are). Private schools are not required to provide, accept or work with children on IEP's as they are all self funded, without recieving public monies from the state or federal governments.College is another issue. College is something a student chooses to do. At that point, according to our laws, the government has met all it's responsibilities for providing a free and appropriate education. Since attending college is voluntary and must be paid for by the student, federal law does not apply and colleges are not required to recognize IEP's or even work with students to find ways to adapt. The only laws colleges must conform to as far as students with sp! ecial needs is physical access laws (ramps, elevators) and EO (equal opportunity) laws. As for your choosing to be in special ed or not, only your parents could disenroll you from special ed while you were under the age of 18. Since you would have been well under 18 when you left junior high, you could not have taken yourself out of the programs unless you parents agreed and signed the paperwork.renee...Just so you know, while some states do provide services for homeschoolers with special ed needs, it is not mandatory or required by federal law. In fact, there are many states (MD included) that take the stance that once you decide to homeschool a child, no matter what the child's disability or needs, the parents are solely responsible for meeting them and do not provide any sort of assitance....Show more
Rivka Killmer: I was 19 when I graduated high school. Does that mean that the high school doesn't have to follow the IEP when I was 19 during high school?
W! ally Gower: The IDEA, the law that provides IEPs, is meant for! ages 3 to graduation from high school. It does not apply to colleges.When you get to college, two other laws kick in more strongly to help you get the accommodations that you need in college, Section 504 and the ADA. You'll note that public colleges have a disabilities services office. That is where you need to go to talk to someone about this. They can tell you what accommodations you can get through Section 504 and the ADA....Show more
Isaias Badgley: At 18 you are consider an adult meaning the state that you live in isn't legally required to follow up an IEP as they were when you were a minor. As an adult you have the choice to continue and get special help in the college and university you attend usually in the form of Students with disabilities program arrived in most major college and university.To have left the program early on like you had mentioned would have only been able to be done by your parents. However, most schools would have advised against you leav! ing the Special Ed. program depending on which disability. Most school districts want to make sure that they are servicing students with IEP because of the legality of the situation... for example if you would have been placed back into a mainstream class with no IEP accommodations on your parents recommendations and legal signature and you were failing your parents could have no legal standing to sue the district. Many parents have tried to sue districts feeling that their child hasn't been helped... granted if they are under a IEP they legal have to be serviced but if they omit out of the program... I promise you the district lawyer is sitting in on the meeting when any parent wants to waive their child's IEP....Show more
Emerita Sciandra: My son recently graduated from college in Illinois - we held his transition to college in May of his senior year of HS. The IEP stated that in college he would receive the same supports he had in HS - His teachers were prone to "! graduate" him out of special ed, but I said no way. I don't know if th! is varies from state to state or not. But he went to college, a private college with his IEP in tow. He is dyslexic and ADD. When he entered college I contacted all his teachers and the head of the academic depts. I sent IEP copies to all of his instructors the first two years, after that he felt confident enough to do it himself. He went to college with ... "must be provided with a reader for all tests, books on tape, extended time on tests, teacher notes before tests, teacher's notes of classroom content." All but one teacher complied immediately, and the dean put pressure on the one that wouldn't. When books on tape weren't an option because newer texts can take up to a year to get - the teachers would cut his reading down or tell him specifically what he needed to read. He would come in early to begin his tests or stay late. Written work was difficult - such as papers, but we got permission for him to email the rough draft to the teacher - she/he would mark i! t up, then he would try to fix it or it would be emailed to me at home and I would edit it and send it on to the teacher. It was my understanding that if you go to college with your IEP still intact - that it holds water until you graduate, and he was 22 when he graduated this past May. This was not an easy process as I as his mom had to show him that he needed to be proactive from the beginning and advocate for himself. Many parents I know sent their childs IEP to college before the term started and at the very least they were offered four years of free tutoring. Colleges can be very accommodating if you push them. I think the key is not to lose that IEP before you enter college. Also check with the college and ask for their help before you apply. Good luck - Melanie...Show more
Jackson Esmiol: high schools are mandated to follow the iep b/c its a completly public facility even homeschooled kids are eligable for special ed through the public school system coll! eges while reciving some fedrial funds are not mandated b/c you also pa! y toution and you are old enough to make that decision by law as to weither or not you will take the courses or not
Hal Rouse: the college i went to told me that the accommodations i needed that was stated in all the paperwork wasn't college level accommodations. there's such a thing called JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL i'm guessing that's kinda like JUNIOR COLLEGE, but what i'm thinking its like middle school.the college that i'm gonna be going to has a program for LD students but i wanna know if it even has Special ED classes. at my old college we didn't have that. I want to be w/ the others and not be labelled anymore as a LD student....Show more
Jana Sakasegawa: Like others have expressed, I was elated to find YA's section for Special Education. I've not been here very long but have already bookmarked so many questions & answers. You see, I not only come from a family of Special Education teachers & administrators, but I am also a concerned parent. About these off-top! ic questions, the recent engineering ones in particular- I've heard of "Specialized Engineering". Perhaps that is one reason why questions were placed here incorrectly. Someone could have just quickly scanned the topics & mistook this to be an area for people studying those specialties or pursuing degrees/careers in such. Maybe the powers that be at YA will create an area for something geared toward them, if they haven't already. Perhaps they will label topics more specifically, as bethikinz suggested..or place a text description below each topic. They could also create a section for Special Education (& more) careers. As for the other offbeat questions, yes, I wholly agree with "luvmy4boyz32"... This question should be starred!...Show more
Marquetta Gimm: The one reason that no one mentions here is that the government is required to provide you with a education through high school. They don't have to provide you with a college education there for they can't be made t! o honor an IEP that was mandated in high school. That is why in college! it's up to the student, parents and the school to make sure that accommodations are made and kept.
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