The Service Delivery Grid in the IEP lists the services the school will give your child, and the amount of time each week they will get those services. The Service Delivery Grid, includes any specialists, like special education teachers or counselors, who will be working with your child.
The grid shows where your child will be getting the services. Your child may get some services in the classroom when they are in class with their peers. They may also go somewhere else for other services, a school's resource room, the gym, or sometimes, services may even be provided at home.
The grid is broken into three sections, Grid A, Grid B, and Grid C.
Grid A
Grid A lists “consultation services,” for the parent or school staff, not the student.
Some examples of the consultation services you might see in Grid A are:
- a consultation service for the speech-language pathologist to meet with your child’s teacher for 30 minutes per week, or
- a consultation service for the school’s behaviorist to teach you strategies to use at home.
Grid B
Grid B lists the special education and services your child gets in general education classroom, or the classroom where most students learn. These services are “push-in” services.
An example of a push-in service you might see in Grid B is 30 minutes of special education reading instruction each week in the general education classroom. This means that a special education teacher will go into your child’s general education classroom to teach them in a small group.
Grid C
Grid C lists the special education and services your child gets outside the general education classroom. These are “pull-out” services.
For example, a special education teacher may pull your child out of the general education classroom to work with them on reading. If your child is placed in a “substantially separate classroom,” most of your child’s special education and services will be listed on Grid C.