<p>Absolutely ask for a 504 meeting. The 504 plan is for kids with health conditions, and an IEP is not necessary or appropriate unless there are learning issues. The 504 plan can be a very simple document, or very complicated. Up to you.</p>
<p>Write the 504 plan yourself, get the doctor to write a signed letter detailing the diagnosis and have the doctor sign a list of accommodations that you want. This might include, along with gym accommodations, things like excused absences for medical appointments. I don’t know what other repercussions occur in school or related to school, from you daughter’s health condition, but include everything you can think of: worst case scenario mentality is best in the document, but then you can work toward practical solutions in person.</p>
<p>The meeting should include the 504m coordinator, usually a principal or asssistant principal, and the school nurse.</p>
<p>You can give copies of the 504 plan to relevant teachers. Often the school will put it in a file and noone sees it, so make sure the PE teacher gets a copy.</p>
<p>The PE teacher has legal liability concerns. But the 504 also brings legal requirements. I cannot say what the best accommodation is in your school. In our school, my daughter was, first, accommodated in regular gym class, but then she ended up doing an individualized fitness class one on one for other years.</p>
<p>There are indeed online PE classes, believe it or not. The school would probably be only to happy to accept such a class and be released from liability worries.</p>