At your child’s annual IEP review meeting this year, be sure to consider COVID recovery services.
Recovery services are extra special education services provided on top of the planned IEP services, to make up for learning losses due to the pandemic.
Teams are supposed to consider whether there’s a need for recovery services “at each annual review meeting held before the end of the 2022-23 school year” (per Oregon guidance).
Decisions should be data-based, not feelings based or “this is what we’re doing this year.”
Kids can qualify even if the team decided recovery services weren’t needed last year. We’re looking at data from before the pandemic, during, and after.
Here’s a link to the guidance referenced above: Planning for Individualized COVID-19 Recovery Services
Here’s the Washington guidance: Questions and Answers: Provision of Services to Students with Disabilities
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