She almost missed it.
A mom I know spent weeks asking for more support for her son. More speech time. More help in the classroom. More of something, because what was
happening wasn't working.
The school finally came back with an answer: more minutes.
And she felt relieved. A little proud, even. Like she'd actually gotten
somewhere.
Then she sat down and read through the service page more carefully. Her son had 60 minutes of speech therapy a week. But all 60 of those minutes happened in a separate room, pulled out of the classes where he most needed to practice talking with other kids.
The minutes were real. The support was real. But the location meant he kept missing the moments where belonging actually happens.
She hadn't asked the wrong question. She just hadn't asked all of them yet.
That's exactly what we're getting into today.
More Support Should
Not Mean More Separation goes live today at 10 am Mtn. Time, 12 pm ET, 11 am CT, 9 am PT
We're going to work through one specific problem: What to do when the minutes written into your child's IEP pull them out of the general education classroom where they need to be learning and practicing that skill.
