Your child’s IEP progress report comes home and says:

“Making progress.”

That sounds reassuring.

But does it actually tell you:

How much progress?

From where?

Toward what?

Using what data?

And whether your child is on track to meet the goal?

In this episode of The Whole Child Advocate, Dominique walks parents through how to read an IEP progress report with more confidence and less confusion.

You’ll learn how to:

• Distinguish an IEP progress report from a report card

• Compare the baseline, current performance, and annual goal

• Check whether progress is being reported in the same way the goal is measured

• Recognize vague language that may leave important questions unanswered

• Ask whether your child is simply making some progress—or making enough progress

• Know what to ask when a goal is mastered early

• Know what to ask when progress is flat, limited, or unclear

• Use calm, specific questions to request better information

One of the most important takeaways:

If the goal is measurable, the progress report should give you enough information to understand movement toward that goal.

The goal is not to turn parents into data analysts.

It is to help you answer one very reasonable question:

“Is my child making the progress this plan was designed to produce?”

Inside the Whole Child Collective, I’m also developing progress-review tools to help parents compare goals, baselines, reporting periods, and current performance more clearly.

www.wholechildadvocacy.com/collective

Because an IEP progress report should do more than reassure you.

It should inform you.