After the meeting, Delores offered to write a column to answer any questions . After the request has been made the ARD meeting must be held within a 30 day period. If you follow the 30 day period then on can be held every month or more. I would recommend that the parents work with the teacher and school to work out as many problems before the ARD meeting so maybe only 1,2 or 3 are needed a year. Present at the ARD meeting is a regular and special education teacher, administrator or diagnostician, parents, child, and any other person who has worked or gives services to your child i.e. Speech Therapist.
Minutes are to be taken on everything discussed.
Then stated is the purpose for the meeting to provide services for the child and the disability category they qualify under, i.e. mental retardation, speech delay etc. Then the last year IEP is evaluated, reviewed and discussed for continuing or discontinuing IEP goals or objectives. Any related services' IEPs are reviewed and discussed. The IEP goals and objectives can be changed or rewritten at any time during the meeting, it is not set in stone. After the IEP has been approved by the parent then the other related services i.e. physical therapy needed by the child are presented and the amount of time to be used during the school day for the service.