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Originally Posted by deafdyke
Boult, an IEP cannot really help with socialization. It doesn't help if there's a snobby/ whitebread school population or if the teachers have NO clue whatsoever how to teach kids like us. Hell.........kids with learning disabilites (most common sped disabilty) often have significent social-emotional issues.
Very often socio-emotional issues are the direct result of not having a good grasp on language. Most oral kids have OK oral skills, but they aren't sophisticated enough to use socially.
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I agree. The IEP does not help with psychosocial issues, or with socialization. And, quite often, the IEP is not even sufficient to help with the educational issues. The mainstream is guilty, in the case of the deaf.hoh student, of not including services that are appropriate or sufficient for education. The majority of IEPs for deaf children do not even include input from a TOD, but are completed by a team including a general education classroom teacher, a generic special ed. teacher, a counselor,( if you're lucky!), a principal, and a very confused parent. And the teams are known to be very coercive in getting parents to sign off on the IEP with as few services as they can get away with providing.