On Thursday October 5th, I was invited to participate in an IEP team meeting as the regular education teacher. This student has down syndrome, identified at birth, and is receiving services as intellectually disabled. This student is in a self-contained classroom therefore, his current teacher served as the special education teacher for the purposes of this meeting. The following people attended this meeting: Mrs. Katherine Fields (ARC Advocate), Dr. Neiman (Main speech therapist, over the phone), Mrs. Bennett (LEA representative), Mrs. Diggs (ACS EC Director, as a precaution because the parents expressed that they were not happy), Mrs. Sikes (Regular Education), Mrs. Bernard (Special Education Teacher), Mrs. Liles (Speech therapist),…