have you ever had an aide that refused to accommodate?

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hi when i was in 8th grade i had an aide who flat-out refused to accommodate me before a firedrill by taking me out of the building, this was a plan in my IEP that i can be removed from the school building prior to one because of my sound sensitivity due to having asperger's and shunted also, has anyone else experienced this?

No, not in K-12, but wait until you try to get professors to cooperate with testing accommodations in college. For some of them, it's like you'd need pictures of them doing something their husband/wife/boss would not be happy about otherwise they will be on a vendetta to cause you serious problems.

What reasons were given by the aide for non-compliance with the IEP?

If I were in the aide's position I would not be happy at all about taking action which mean that someone would be totally unprepared in the event of an actual fire or other emergency. It may be that they were concerned about your safety and the possibility of being held at least partially responsible if you were harmed in some way because you hadn't participated in a drill, and that they had been party to that.

Edited to add: Actually, I think it's grossly irresponsible to permit someone to skip fire drills. If anything, someone with sound sensitivities is in more need of attending drills so they can work out how to handle the sound, what to do to get themselves safe in an emergency. Otherwise, what are you going to do? Never venture into any public building? Always have an aide with you just in case?

School fire drills are fairly frequent, and the alarms are absolutely painful for those with sensitive hearing. If the student were assisted through a fire drill in a safe manner prior to the school year, without other students around, it would be much easier for the student to access the information if needed.

When you have the student in the middle of hundreds of other students and the sound of the blaring alarm, it is more likely to cause the student pain and confusion than build on their life skill at exiting a building safely. It can happen at any time during the school day, imagine if they had that kind of disturbing stressor and then had to go back inside and try to recompose themselves in front of their peers and spend the rest of the day in school, trying to get by after being totally unraveled?

What I'm saying is that for some of us, a lesson learned in private without the expectation of doing 20 other structured things afterward is a better lesson in safety and what to do than a lesson learned in chaos followed by no time to recover.

I don't think the aide should just leave you to deal with the fire alarm if it causes overload, but I agree that just skipping the fire drill isn't a good idea either. (And I have similar issues with fire alarms.)

Some thoughts:

* maybe you could skip some of the alarms, and go through others, so it's not so frequent that it seriously disrupts everyday functioning
* pick a different route for you to go, so you aren't going to be around the crowd
* provide you with earplugs, and have you put them in when the alarm goes off
* let you take the rest of the day off of school if you have a fire alarm, so you can recover