Can the responsibility for a childs education be shared between homeschooling and public schooling?
Dear Betsy, Your question raises two separate concerns regarding, first, the unwillingness of your district to recognize your son’s non-verbal learning disability, and second, the unwillingness of the school to continue to serve your son in an accelerated or gifted program because he is performing adequately from an academic standpoint, although he is not functioning well in other ways. IDEA and the special education labeling system do not explicitly list every clinical or medical disorder that may constitute a disability and adversely affect a child’s ability to successfully perform at school. The nature of non-verbal learning disabilities are such that the child may clinically meet the criteria for the diagnosis of a non-verbal learning disability, but not satisfy the educational criteria for one of the thirteen categories for disability. However, it is worth exploring further whether or not your child does in fact meet the criteria for one or more of the categories of special educat
