📚✏️Back to School Checklist Step 4

✅ Step 4️⃣

✨Do you know how your child did on their IEP goals at the end of last school year? Do you know if they regressed at all over the summer?

Once you’ve gotten your bearings after the first few days of school, look back at your child’s IEP goal progress reports from the end of last school year. Do they make sense? Can you pick up that document and clearly understand what your child is capable of doing with regard to the skill being measured?

This is important for a few reasons:

1. Parents are one of the few IEP team members who stay on the IEP team throughout a child’s entire time in school. Teachers and service providers move, retire, change caseloads, etc. Goals and progress can be interpreted differently by different people, and you can help progress measurement stay more consistent.

2. If there is a question of skill regression, the IEP team needs to know what your child could do before the summer break to be able to compare to their current skill level. Skill regression is one of the main justifications for ESY (Extended School Year), but IEP teams rarely actually talk about it.

If you have any questions about your child’s last goal progress report or their current skill level, ask your child’s case manager and service providers. You can also ask to schedule an IEP meeting 30 days into the start of the school year to review goal progress and make sure their current educational program is working for them.

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