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I think the individual school as well as the teachers will affect your experience. We moved here 3 years ago with an IEP already in place from our school system in CT. We fought long and hard for our son in CT. The schools there were not interested in extending services unless forced to. It was not until we involved a mediator and consulted a lawyer who specialized in education that we were able to get them to act.
Our elementary school here in NC bent over backward to help him as well as performing additional testing that is part of the process here in NC, but not in our old school system. This showed us that he also suffered from an auditory processing disorder. We are now at Heritage Middle, and the support team there are wonderful, and my son has a great staff who are concerned and caring. I cannot speak for other schools within wake county, but the 2 that we have been been exposed to in Wake Forest have been awesome.
My son has ADHD and SPD. He was evaluated by Wake County Schools when he was 4 and we were offered help. We chose to keep him with his current therapists because he had a long standing relationship with them and didn't want to break those bonds. Looking back I wish I would have taken them up on the offer just to get and keep out foot in the door. You should contact Project Enlightenment They are awesome. We don't have an IEP, but my son's teacher is well versed in ADHD and SPD, and has been wonderful. Our experience with WCPSS has been great. Definitely get in touch with Project Enlightenment. They are a great resource. Good luck!
My son has diagnosed ADHD and I found that the teachers in elementary school are more helpful than in middle school. He has a 504 plan right now, I didn't pursue an IEP. I have found, in my experience , there isn't anything available for middle school kids. Maybe it is just his school. I know of another person that has a son with ADHD that ended up pulling her son out of the same school and home schooling him. I have to keep reminding the teachers to follow the plan - it gets exhausting.
We chose to request year round at Heritage Middle, rather than have our son go to the base school for our neighborhood. The last year in elementary we were strongly advised against the base school, and told that the services and staff there were not going to be able to give him the support he needed. In terms of services for middle school kids, with an IEP he gets preferential seating, extra testing time, in class resource, and curriculm assistance as his elective. In addition he receives social skill training, and has support staff to work with him should he have problems in his daily comings and goings. I cant imagine that he is the only student there receiving these services. Every parent needs to be the champion for their child, and insist that they have the best education experience possible. Since there is only so much funding and staff to go around, we have found else where that if you don't fight for your child, the services will not be offered up.
I don't understand why you would go from Chapel Hill to Raleigh. Is Durham out of the running? As far as accomidations, it really depends on the teacher your child gets, not the school, the principal, or location. That will change year of course. Elementary school is easier to get accomidations mainly b/c teachers deal with a much smaller group of kids while middle and high school teachers see a lot more kids in a day and really it is hard to remember who needs extra time, read aloud, mark in book, etc.
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