5/25/2009 7:01:26 PM permalink
Josie Posts 1	My daughter was diagnosed shen she was a child with expressive/receptive language impairment. She was a special student throughout her elementary and part of her middle school years. In middle school she received a McKay scholarship, went to private schools and graduated from High School. Did these schools helped her? Not at all. All of them were ill equipped and had no idea on how to teach learning disabilities and improvised in the worst possible ways, with teachers that had no clue on how to teach them. Nevertheless, with tutors and a lot of prayer she finished high school and will now attend MDC. My question is what now? What is out there for young men and women like my daughter in terms of finishing a carreer or a profession? There are a lot of parents like me for whom there are no programs available for older children. My daughter is 19 years old now. Thank you.
	5/28/2009 11:23:30 PM permalink
Isa Posts 9	Josie: If you have not contacted the Disabilities Services Office in MDC you should. It is really important for your daughter to get the supports that she needs. This is a really good website too: www.bookshare.org. Their services are free to students with disabilities. They have over 900 books online that may be downloaded. If some of the books assigned for reading are here it will facillitate the process for her. Also it would be nice to get a group of students that are facing these issues together to see how we can help them. I hope other folks respond. Parent to Parent of Miami invites students to participate in panels at the university level. By sharing their perspective and experience with the school system - they help create change that will benefit others in the near future.
	5/29/2009 8:32:56 PM permalink
miamirn Posts 40	Josie, I found this site. It's for Florida Community College accommodation for students. I don't know how old it is, but you can always ask MCCC when you go to the Student Disability Office at the school for the most current contact numbers: http://www.fldoe.org/CC/Educators/pdf/factsheet-09-08.pdf This office will come in handy for my son who is 25 and may be entering MDCC within the next year. He has Asperger's Syndrome, Bipolar and ADHD. Right now we are getting set up to take the GED with accommodations. This is what he is applying in order that he can take the GED and be on an equal footing with his peers. Note that these accommodations are applicable to college and University level courses/classes as well: Time and a half, separate days for sections of the 2 day GED test and a private room. I don't know how much you know about testing accommodations, but if your interested, I'd be glad to help you with what ever information I have and can get.
	6/8/2009 1:30:43 PM permalink
Mari67 Posts 10	Hi I'm interested in how your daughters language is now? Did it get better with time. My son is 6 and has this problem. He's very quiet in school. I also had him in a private school for a while but they couldn't really help him academically. His language is getting alot better. What do you feel help your daughter the most? Mair67
	6/10/2009 10:39:43 PM permalink
Guest	Hello Josie mentioned tutoring. This is one thing that I can say it worked for my son. I give credit for his reading abilities to the one-on-one tutoring he received. I only wish that I would have been able to pay for math tutoring as well. He is 20 years old right now and was never diagnosed properly by the school system. He was placed into an SED classroom. I had to take him to the University of Miami and pay it out of my pocket so that he would be placed in the correct classroom. I have an idea , is there anyway we could have the legislators let us use the McKay funds for tutoring , this would be awesome!
	10/15/2011 2:00:04 PM permalink
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