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I'd look into the 504 or perhaps special education services. I'm a middle school special education teacher. I taught two years in a comprehensive school, the rest in a special school where I have the kids in my room all to myself, I can give them as much or little homework as I want.
I was amazed during my two years in the comprehensive school setting how unwilling some teachers were to make the modicications mandated on the IEP. They felt I was favoring and babying the kids by cutting their assignments down and modifying the expectations for them on large projects... it was really frustrating for me... but really it was only a few unwilling teachers. The good thing about a 504 or special education services, is all you have to do is get the administrator involved and he/she should make sure those teachers are implementing the necessary accomodations.
As your child's advocate, you got to do what you need to do... In order for a child to qualify for special education services, they'll need to do some evaluation of some kind... I'm not exactly sure how the referral process works as the kids I have in my class have probably been in special education for since they were very young...
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Kerby
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