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My son currently has an IEP with the school district we are in. Because of wierd funky city drawn lines, we live in one city and he goes to the school district in another town district. We want to move to a house with cheaper rent, when we moved here a year ago we were rushed, as the house we were living in was forclosed on with the bank looking to take it over and kick us out at any second, we were renting. So we took the first available house we could get, now we see cheaper rent in other areas of the city, but it's out of the school district we are in.

So after all that, because he has an IEP already, will it be easy to get another IEP in a new school district? Or will it be the same hoops and battles?

The IEP will transfer with his records, when the CSE review comes up in the spring it will be reviewed as in every school district. Once your son has the IEP they cant denied him services at any public school as long as they continue to be needed.

Your IEP works anywere in the US. The only time it's a isuse is if you end-up in DOD <deparment of defence> school and thats only in a US territory on a base or on a over seas base there the law doesn't aply they only have to follow the "spirt" of a iep.

Wow, thanks for that info guys.

That makes it so much easier.

The only thing I know of they can fight you on when moving is if your child is mainstream with a one on one aid and the new school has autism specific classes and doesn't already have any children using a one on one aid they can deny the aid and put them in a class specified for autism. You can fight it and win but its the one thing they can battle you on and make difficult since the one on ones are not budgeted for at all by some schools who have special classes set up. Other than that they can't deny anything else on his IEP. I know i drive the school batty I think i called an IEP meeting 5 times last year for my eldest and made them review it and make changes. I called them yesterday and let them know they better be ready for the first day of school or try to schedule something before school starts next month because it needs changes again. I have had much progress with him doing his work on a laptop i bought him and not arguing about doing it and staying more focused and i'm sending the blasted laptop to school and they WILL let him use it so I gotta get the darn IEP altered again.