Receiving your child’s IEP around Thanksgiving? Under Ontario guidelines, school boards in Durham Region must share Individualized Education Plans within 30 school days. Whether your child attends DDSB or DCDSB, the Fall Review is your essential window to ensure sensory supports, transition aids, and learning goals are tailored to their needs. Read our step-by-step checklist to prepare for your review with confidence.

The summer can feel like a restful escape from the demands of the school year, a time of relaxed routines and fewer pressures. Yet, as the calendar pages turn and the familiar back-to-school ads fill our screens, a pit of anxiety can begin to form in the stomachs of both parents and children.

IPRC stands for Identification, Placement, Review Committee and is a very important first step in advocating for your child at school if they are autistic/have autism or an intellectual disability.

The IEP is the plan that puts into place the resources and supports identified as beneficial to your child to help them achieve their academic goals.

Immediately following ‘the diagnosis’ I informed the school and meetings were held, and magically there were answers and strategies available to help my child learn. Although this started off positively, I soon realized that the strategies the school had were from a list of ‘known fixes’ and they were going to use these, and only these, strategies. The truth is that the education system has been struggling for a while to get the right supports and staff in place for children with varying needs.