ESY ?

[mamaturtle]

SO this will be our first summer for DS to attend ESY this year! I can't believe the IEP team agreed with us that DS could use the services! Yay, daycare will not cost us that much during the summer!

I have had the experience of being rejected for ESY and spent summers of DH or I running from private therapy to private therapy to keep up with DS's needs. We had expensive daycare costs during summers because DS also needed to be with mainstreamed kids.

Is it just like being in school with busing and breakfast and lunch being provided with the necessary therapies?

Please share your experience.

[kmc2]

Mamaturtle, from what I understand, everything should still be provided like transportation, meals, services etc. Maybe its different in each district though, I'm bot sure. That's awesome news though, I'm very glad you guys have ESY for him now! You must be so relieved. I'm in the process of gathering a whole team of professionals to attend the meeting with DH and I. I just rejected DS IEP for them denying him ESY. I really am so glad to hear it finally worked out for you guys and gives me some hope too! Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions to help with this.

[Captain Serious]

This varies by district. Here it is a 4 or 5 week program, designed to meet your child's specific needs (reading only; reading, writing, and speech; etc.) and only runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. I understand that other places do it differently. I'd ask your case manager how the program will be structured.

[mrsbuttinski]

Hard to say.

It varies by district and student need.

Our school has a summer program for kids who are in special day classes along with some kids who are mostly mainstreamed- the result is a more restricted setting than some of the kids are used to with peers who are more impaired and atypical which matters in the context of a child trying to gain traction around social skills.

DS did ESY for 2 summers via our district- it was reading and math support. His resource room teacher came to the house twice and week for instructional time.

[jmski]

My district has ESY half day (mornings). They serve not lunch, not breakfast. Students are bussed. The number of days a week a student attends is from 1 day a week to 5 days a week based on need and ARC decision.

[mamaturtle]

Thank you all for your responses!

I will have to find out how many days ESY will be.

Will they have to follow the IEP with therapy times and placement?

[mrsbuttinski]

Feb 19, 2015 16:28:10 GMT -5 mamaturtle said:

Thank you all for your responses!

I will have to find out how many days ESY will be.

Will they have to follow the IEP with therapy times and placement?

We always got a revision or separate IEP for ESY.

Most academic year IEPs stipulate a total number of visits during the school year that is considerably below the level of x number of times per week multiplied by the 40 weeks of the school year. For instance, DS's speech was 2 x/week for a total of 60 sessions.

[KC thepouchh8r]

My district has half day 9-1130 and full day 9-2. Dd qualified for half day last year and again this year. Her classroom ran the same and she still got speech 3xs a week. She was bussed.

[cam]

No information for you, but congrats on the ESY being approved.

[Captain Serious]

Feb 19, 2015 16:28:10 GMT -5 mamaturtle said:

Thank you all for your responses!

I will have to find out how many days ESY will be.

Will they have to follow the IEP with therapy times and placement?

Our IEPs have a separate section for ESY, in which they specify any/all therapies and services that will be provided during the summer. The therapies sessions do not have to be the same as during the school year, because the law requires them only to provide enough services so that the child does not fall back. They do not have to help the child continue improving over the summer.

[mrsbuttinski]

This is a pretty decent piece on ESY under IDEA.

While regression is the easiest standard under which a student can qualify, it's not the only one available under IDEA. It can be a lot more difficult to document other reasons it may be needed.

www.wrightslaw.com/info/esy.standards.barlev.htm

DS's ESY was offered under "emerging skills". Dyslexia, complicated by his transfer between 3 different schools with different math curricula left DS well below grade level with an IQ that would preclude that. In our case the resource teacher prompted ESY. It was a win/win- DS got seamless professional help with math/reading and she got a kid/family she knew on her roster of students for the summer which helped pay off her masters.