do "IEP"s count in college?

Question

or only in K-12 school????

what are the rules in MN?

Answer 1

Colleges are not legally bound to recognize and implement IEP's. An IEP can only be enforced in public schools for grades K-12 for students who are in tradioitnal classrooms and for students up to 21 who are in need of extended voactional and life skills training (students with moderate to severe developmental delays such as autism or with similar levels of cognative delay such as what is often seen with Downe's).

Once a child moves into college, it is up to the student and the family to inform the school if there are any disabilities. Physical disabilites that require wheel chair use, as well as blindness and deafness are covered by the americans with disabilities acts, but they must be able to meet and maintain the expected performance levels of each teacher and the college in general. The college is not bound to pay for assistive technology or dedicated aides, nor are any of the teachers mandated to allow for adaptations in testing situations. It is all strictly voluntary.

Generally speaking, smaller colleges tend to be far more willing to work with students who have special needs. Class sizes tend to be smaller, the student-teacher realtionship is more personal and often times are far more willing to allow new strategies to be tried. Large colleges such as state schools will often have tutorial services available, but the sheer size of many of the lectures and the student load carried by each professor can make it difficult to connect well enough for allowances to be made (or to even be effective) in individual classes. If you know your special needs child is intending to go to school, start investigating it now. Call the schools you are most interested in and ask how they have handled students with similar needs. Ask which teachers or departments have strong records in meeting the needs of non-traditional learners. Be especially sure to find out things like housing (what dorms have a reputation for being loud and crazy, which floor do the dorm managers tend to live on, what is the security like), public transportation, scholorships, and the availability of both a pshychologist and an educational counselor with experience in working with special needs college students. The more you find out, the sooner, the better the choices you'll end up with.

Answer 2

Ask to talk to the "Section 504 officer" at the college you plan to attend. The rules for special education in college are different from those in high school. It's governed by a different Federal law - Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, not the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997.

Answer 3

IEPs can be used to access the office of disability services of a college. However, at the college level or post high school graduation, the Section 504 document is used to provide services for the disabled student to access the classroom. It can provide tutoring, special software, extended test taking, and even a note taker. It is a federal civil rights law that comes with no additional money for the college itself. The best thing to contact as soon as you state you will be attending the particular college to contact them via email or telephone to find out what needs to be done to have it in place before your first day of classes.

Answer 4

u can get it until age 21 this isn't the same situation as yours but u can still get it. MN is a great place fo special ed.I'm 13 and in a wheelchair I live in MN and use an IEP for school.

Answer 5

You should contact the college which you are interested in attending. Most should have an office called Student Disability Services. I'm including the link to St. Cloud State University's SDS.

Answer 6

I'm in CA and kids with an IEP can get help/tutoring all through college. At least that is what we tell their parents, so I hope we're not lying.

Answer 7

it's a federal law that all colleges must accomodate to meet your needs. IEPs will not follow you to college, but professors must individually accomodate. You have to tell them what you need however.

Answer 8

they do but you must inform each professor individually and if you have a learning disability,then you must get reassessed by your college cause their definition of a learning disability is different from grade schools then your accomodations are based on your disability, as well as your education plan,like I get double time and a calculator for math tests

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