Accommodations to help high school girl with Bipolar Disorder?

Tutoring if appropriate, and with someone that can be sensitive to her mood state. Flexibility on when tests are taken would be another. If she's fine when a test is given, then she takes it. If she's hypo, then it gets rescheduled. That her teachers be educated about her illness enough to recognize the difference between being lively and starting a hypo episode. And, to the fullest extent possible, that she be treated like any other student.

Your best source of info is your daughter. What does she believe she needs.

And, the most important thing you can do is continue to pursue with her the cocktail that works. On average, this takes at least a year or longer. It's very frustrating, but eventually the right mix can be found. Give a med a fair shot, but don't accept staying with a med/meds because the pdoc prescribed them. Stay with them if she is stabilized. If not stable, then try dose adjustments or switching to other meds. Same thing with side effects. Quality of life is a legitimate issue. After a while, if you are getting nowhere, try switching pdocs. Different ones have different philosophies.

~bipolar, but not dx'd until much later

You can't ask for reasonable accommodations without having something in mind first. It is not up to the school system to come up with suggestions.

If, like you say, she is very bright how did she learn? Would her being in a private room (or home) with no distractions and have the class taught via teleconference (TV) be the answer? That way no one could see her if she was depressed and she would not be under so much stress. Also, if she was in a manic mood she would not disturb the class.

Could she take tests prior to the start of school so she would not feel as pressured? Should she be put into classes with kids like her that have special needs?

She needs to work with a therapist so she can function outside of school and in society. If she is having that difficult of a time now you need talk that over with her doctor and ask him/her for suggestions.

I failed horribly in school, and homeschool, and then at five different colleges. however..... when I was interested in something I was creating, creating being the main ingredient here, and had a timeline with no timeline, (which never happened in school of course... my learning of material was just second nature along my way to that which I had then become obsessed to create, so long as I was free to feel like I had an influence over the rules. I could see someone with some brains creating an IEP which allowed for specialized teachers, such as myself and others who have struggled with the disease, to come into schools and with little to no limits on our methods, motivate these students to learn (not just memorize) the material needed to pass any and all tests. Intelligence has never been the issue... it's a matter of what some call illness, and with me at least, a new way of learning facts and history. I had the hardest time with logic.... algebraic to be precise, because it was sooo..."layer upon layer". All I needed to miss was a few days out with depression, or coming off a manic...and I missed the building block I needed in a puzzle of logic I never understood, but felt I was supposed to memorize. There is a completely different physiological brain that we're working with here, so we're taliking about a completely different approach to rote teaching. Give the student the objective. Create a reasonable timeline based on their particular cycling and past performance, and have all head teachers be successfully recovering from the disease itself. Their in class assistants would be researchers in the psychology and education fields and be held responsible for keeping record of cause and effect, profit and loss, basically a talley of what the student was accomplishing based on different approaches from the head teacher... one of us. They would also serve as a form of accountability for the classroom. They must realize however, that so long as moral, ethical, and personal rights and values are respected, (and fiscal) there should be no limitations as to how the students learn the material. I believe we are looking at the future when we look at bipolar. That's what most of us are preoccupied with anyway, waiting on the rest to help us figure ourselves out, while we have insights into things that are just downright amazing sometimes. I would be willing to work with a team for free in helping develop an IEP that would be acceptable that I believe could work. No amount of research can tell you the feeling you get when you look up and see that unexpected sunrise, that's been painted even if you were the only one there to notice, taking up the entire sky, and no doctor or researcher is going to be able to step in and help these kids as much as the kids are going to be able to help themselves. Medication can play a huge role, counseling can, I partake in both as prescribed, but I will always be different, and I praise God for it..... like a hummingbird, once managed, no better or worse than the other birds, just different, and actually somewhat beautiful. But you can't see the beautiful colors without a little research. I have some excellent ideas about this... thank you for the e-mail. I will take my medicine so I'm not up all night planning out the next decade of comprehensive schooling for Bi-polar students. Good night. Best of luck.

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try the link below it should be of some help to you. take care and good luck to you both

www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/documents/

elfaq.doc

for some reason it will not add as a link so type that in in full and it should work