IEPs - Which specifics are most necessary for your child?

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Parents and Aspies,

My son is getting older and will be soon attending junior high. So far we have had pretty general things on his IEP like modifying classwork and homework, going to RSP for writing help, going to speech for help with social skills, and adaptive PE for his motor skills. But after talking to another parent of an Aspie, I realize that Ian's IEP's are generic - they don't address his inability to understand "inferences" or how physically slow he is at things, like going from one class to another, etc, which are things he will deal with in junior high.

I know IEP's are individual, (or they wouldn't be called IEP's!), but what specific items have been most helpful for you/your child to include on their IEP? I fear I've been going about this all wrong, and I want to make it right for my child.

Thanks!

By inferences, do you mean implications? The speaker should get to the point, and be precise. They ARE paid for that! If you mean discerning anothers inferences, that isn't possible to do 100%, and I didn't really even attempt that until I was like 30.

My last employer made some STUPID assumptions, and I had to question a lot of things, and listen to even meaningless dreck to try to discern his inference before he said something STUPID.

Once, I caught him on a phone talking about stacker. He was a cheapskate, and I got him stacker to save a few hundred bucks and still be able to do a project that made him millions! Anyway, he told a customer about how stacker could save time because it obviously reduced the amount that had to be stored. I told him that was STUPID because:

1. It was a block device, and one wrong bit in a worthless area could have made EVERYTHING worthless! You could lose EVERYTHING because some guys shopping list had an item that couldn't be recovered!
2. Most backup programs had similar technology, on FILE backups so, although they were JUST as efficient, you could have LOTS of areas go bad without losing ANYTHING worthwhile!

That is just one small example. Every time he asked a question that I deemed unneccessary for him, I had to question, and watch. AGAIN though, teachers are paid NOT to do such things!

Steve

SK,

Thanks for your reply. I did actually mean "inferences". Purely basic example: Because someone is wearing a stethescope, you can "infer" that the person works in the medical profession.

OH, OK, I was looking at the phrasing and thinking you meant he had trouble discerning what OTHERS were inferring!

I'm sure he'll learn that. Besides, sometimes those things are WRONG! Just today I took my car into a place, and a person came down with no uniform. I believed her to be just another customer. NOPE! She was the employee to get my car. And I have seen people with stethoscopes that were just students, and used them ONLY to take pulses. One recently had to COME BACK to listen because her supervisor got her to admit she wasn't really listening. HEY, you know what they say about ASSUMING!

Steve