It depressed my brother before school even started

This is a fairly easy question to answer.

I am a teacher, in addition, my brother had IEP's throughout his entire
school life. After a long conversation with my brother, who is now 35, we
agree on one thing. It was always a downer to hear everything he couldn't
do before the beginning of the year. The IEP states the areas of
improvement and then the goals, but the child is left listening to the ugly
and nothing else. It depressed my brother before school even started. He
mentioned how he felt so excited to start with his friends, but only
reminded on how he's different and not like the other kids. He also
mentioned how that kept him separated from others, and nervous about meeting
new kids with the heightened feeling of how he's different.

My brother is extremely out going, and it was interesting for me to hear him
speak about his nervousness.

I hope that helps.

Thank You,

Laurie Teague