Questions+and+(hopefully)+Answers

**All those burning questions you have - post them here and we can try to figure out answers**
Per Claire Greer at DPI Students with significant visual impairments can get a medical exemption. Make sure you detail thier visual needs in the IEP and be specific on what they can and can't see. Be very specific on why the test will be innapropriate for them based on thier vision. You can also get a medical exemption for students who are not able to respond in a consistant manner. Again detail in their IEP how they respond and why you cannot get a consistant response from the student.
 * Do I have to test everyone?**

Per Mary Ann Turner: Typically the classroom staff who know the students will blend the food in the instructional kitchen. Classroom staff have greater knowledge of the texture modifications that keep students safe versus the cafeteria staff. The equipment used to blend the food must be sanitized following use. This can be done by the cafeteria staff or you can obtain sanitizer from the cafeteria and do so in the instructional kitchen. You must carry food from the cafeteria in covered trays (styrofoam works). Some cafeteria managers will set aside a location in the cafeteria kitchen for this food preparation to occur, but the food processor that is provided to classrooms by OT is not commercial grade and must be stored in the instructional kitchen. It is expected that food will be served immediately upon preparation or blending.
 * Does food have to be blended in the school cafeteria or the instructional kitchen?**

Kelly Creech the health officer for Wake County Public Schools has sanitation guidelines that reflect this process.

See December Minutes
 * So what is CAP?**


 * Can people come observe my class?**