We had the boys' IEP meeting a couple of weeks ago and I am still processing it. The boys' have been discharged from both special education and speech services as of their birthday. I am so excited for their speech development, Miss Hillary said they scored above average on their speech testing that she did right before the meeting. I am also a little hesitant because of all the progress we have made and I am terrified that we will see regression after we get back from vacation. They have made huge strides this year and I really thrilled with their progress and every day I am amazed by something they say to me. Their vocabulary is amazing and they are so incredibly smart and intuitive and compassionate. But... I just worry without those extra pushes they have been receiving from Miss Cheryl and Miss Hillary they will regress. I know it is silly, their teacher told me the other day they shared in class and the other kids were asking questions and they were answering those questions and my heart soared hearing that. I never thought they were going to have easy drop offs and interact easily with their classmates.
I wanted to prepare them for the fact that Miss Hillary and Miss Cheryl won't be in their class after we get back from North Carolina to which I got a "that's OK momma, its OK they won't be there!" Well... I won't tell Miss Hillary and Miss Cheryl you said that lol! I guess we will see what happens, but I really hope they do well! These boys really do blow me away everyday!
Showing posts with label speech development. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Speech update
I had written a few months ago but the boys' speech and how it was going.
On Thursday we had a meeting to decide if they would qualify for services once they turn three. The process started in November and went a little like this:
We had a meeting at the house with the boys' case manager, early interventionalist, and the transition coordinator for Child Development Services. We decided what the boys should be evaluated for and what the concerns were. We determined that they would be observed at school by a special education teacher, have a speech evaluation and that Jack would be observed by an occupational therapist.
The speech evaluation took place at home over two days and we were mailed the report after it was completed.
We arrived at the CDS office the morning of the meeting and went into the conference room.
During the meeting we discussed two things, first any changes in the current plan and second what the plan would look like once the boys turned three. It took about an hour and a half to get through Jack's portion of the meeting since we started with him. Keaghan's went quicker because most of the concerns are the same and they will be receiving very similar services. I would say if I was there for only one child the meeting would have been just over an hour... because even while we were focusing on Jack for that first hour and a half, there were pieces about Keaghan interspersed.
The two downsides to the meeting for me were that the speech therapist was unable to attend but was able to teleconference but it seemed a little hurried, and that their preschool teachers did not attend at all.
The first thing we did once we got started was to change the boys plan so that the early interventionalist would attend preschool with the boys and coordinate with their teachers to create some extra opportunities for speech and use the other session she sees them to do some preteaching.
Starting in April when they turn three, they will have speech services at school in addition to a special education teacher being in the school with them.
This is just a brief overview and I will be able to add more once I have a copy of the IEP, but overall, it went really well and we will see how it goes once we get started. Any questions send me a message!
On Thursday we had a meeting to decide if they would qualify for services once they turn three. The process started in November and went a little like this:
We had a meeting at the house with the boys' case manager, early interventionalist, and the transition coordinator for Child Development Services. We decided what the boys should be evaluated for and what the concerns were. We determined that they would be observed at school by a special education teacher, have a speech evaluation and that Jack would be observed by an occupational therapist.
The speech evaluation took place at home over two days and we were mailed the report after it was completed.
We arrived at the CDS office the morning of the meeting and went into the conference room.
During the meeting we discussed two things, first any changes in the current plan and second what the plan would look like once the boys turned three. It took about an hour and a half to get through Jack's portion of the meeting since we started with him. Keaghan's went quicker because most of the concerns are the same and they will be receiving very similar services. I would say if I was there for only one child the meeting would have been just over an hour... because even while we were focusing on Jack for that first hour and a half, there were pieces about Keaghan interspersed.
The two downsides to the meeting for me were that the speech therapist was unable to attend but was able to teleconference but it seemed a little hurried, and that their preschool teachers did not attend at all.
The first thing we did once we got started was to change the boys plan so that the early interventionalist would attend preschool with the boys and coordinate with their teachers to create some extra opportunities for speech and use the other session she sees them to do some preteaching.
Starting in April when they turn three, they will have speech services at school in addition to a special education teacher being in the school with them.
This is just a brief overview and I will be able to add more once I have a copy of the IEP, but overall, it went really well and we will see how it goes once we get started. Any questions send me a message!
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