{"id":635,"date":"2020-01-13T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/story\/mias-story-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:05:41","slug":"mias-story-2","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/story\/mias-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Istwa Mia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-635","story","type-story","status-publish","hentry","topic_tax-students-with-disabilities"],"acf":{"component_hero":{"variant":"split","":null,"subheader":"","button":"","image":5549},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Mia, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, was previously attending a District 75 school that the NYC Department of Education (DOE) had identified as accessible. Mia was placed in a classroom on the first floor that was able to accommodate her mobility needs, but it turned out to be the only classroom in the school that was able to accommodate her.\u00a0 As a result, Mia remained in that classroom for five years, making minimal progress as she continued to receive the same educational content with each group of incoming students, while her peers progressed through the curriculum and moved on to other classrooms.\r\n\r\nAfter Mia\u2019s mother repeatedly raised concerns, AFC intervened to secure a re-evaluation for Mia, which confirmed that her academic and social progress had plateaued during the five years she had remained in the first\u00ad\u2013floor classroom.\u00a0 AFC fought alongside Mia and her mother to find a new placement, a battle that made headlines; Mia was featured on the cover of the New York Daily News, becoming the face of the thousands of New York City students who lack appropriate accommodations in school. AFC was able to secure placement for Mia at a specialized non-public school, where she started in the summer of 2019. As Mia\u2019s mother Yuvi describes it, the new placement is a completely new world.\u00a0 \u201cHere, they are not punishing her behavior. They are working to understand it, and her.\u201d\r\n\r\nMia\u2019s story is a stark reminder of the difference an appropriate placement can make not only for the student, but for the family.\u00a0 \u201cI had fought for vision services for Mia for a really long time,\u201d Yuvi recalls, \u201cand the second I got into Manhattan Star, they saw that she needed vision stuff.\u00a0 Things that normally I would feel I have to fight for, they\u2019re just doing.\u201d\u00a0 Mia, who had never used a keyboard at her old school, is now becoming familiar with navigating technology thanks to an adaptive keyboard her teachers provided.","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_pull_quote","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_pull_quote":{"":null,"quote":"You shouldn\u2019t have to go through all this trouble just to get the basic stuff that you\u2019d want your kid to get. Had it not been for AFC, I know she\u2019d just have been on that first floor until she graduated.","cite":"Yuvi, Mia's mother","settings":{"":null,"settings":""}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"\u201cRinyon IEP Mia ap vini, e pou premye fwa mwen pa santi mwen oblije mete gan boks\u00e8 epi pote yon defans\u00e8 av\u00e8 m. Li pa ta dwe konsa. Istwa a te vin yon fason diferan pou mwen, men pou anpil timoun sa pa rive. Anpil timoun pa konnen defans\u00e8 yo dey\u00f2 pou ede moun yo.\u201d","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"topic":[28],"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"disable_sticky_helpbar":false,"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":""}},"component_slide":{"":null,"image":5549,"custom_tag":"","kicker":"Mia's Story","title":"\u201cMia\u2019s IEP meeting is coming up, and for the first time I don\u2019t feel like I have to put on boxing gloves and bring an advocate with me.\u00a0It shouldn\u2019t be like that.\u00a0Had it not been for AFC, I know she\u2019d just have been on that first floor until she graduated.\"","link_text":"Read the full story"}},"yoast_head":"\nMia's Story - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/story\/mias-story-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mia's Story - 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