Early Intervention

Down the Home Stretch with the IEP (We hope)

August 15, 2008

We mentioned before that we got a meeting with the school system’s part of J-man’s IEP team to go over their part of the results from his various evaluations and assessments. This is not the default way they (or apparently most school systems) do things, but you are entitled to see all of these results [...]

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Five Things You Can Do If You Think Your Child Has Autism

August 11, 2008

Far and away, the most popular post we’ve had is “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?” – the one that lists the specific autistic ‘traits’ or ‘symptoms’ our son has and to what degree. After talking to other parents, the reason why that post is so popular is abundantly clear – parents are afraid and want [...]

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Big IEP/Preschool Evaluation Now Behind Us

August 5, 2008

As you transition from Early Intervention to your county school system’s services and preschool programs, there comes a time when you have to subject your child to a bunch of evaluations in order to determine his or her eligibility for services. Yesterday was our turn. I should preface all this by saying that this sounds [...]

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Revisiting Milestones – Speech, Language, and Reading

July 23, 2008

I’m one of the first people to encourage other parents to chuck the milestones books out the window. The ones that tell you what your child should be doing at 75.34 weeks to me do little except make you increase your antacid budget every month. The obvious exception to this is that if you suspect [...]

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Assistive Technology Resource for People in NC

June 24, 2008

If you live in North Carolina (like we do), there’s a fantastic resource called Generations-Tadpole that a few people and a couple of therapists mentioned to me. We haven’t used it yet, but I’m sure we will. The best way I can think of to describe them is like Netflix for assistive and augmentative technology. [...]

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Giving Thanks for Therapists – A Season of Transitions

June 22, 2008

Assuming you have good relationships with them – which to a person we’ve had with all of ours – your child’s therapists become your friends; they leave and you mourn. They bring you the one blessing you want as much as anything. They help your child take the one step at a time they need [...]

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Hear! Hear!

June 4, 2008

J-Man had his appointment with the audiologist today. No one really thought he had any hearing issues; this is just part of the process for getting into the county school system. All this is for preschool and therapy services and completing the umpteen steps required before we have his IEP meeting in August. The audiologist [...]

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Parental Validation

May 1, 2008

We took J-man to the doctor yesterday for a physical. The county requires one as part of the paperwork to get him into the school system setting, versus the Early Intervention setting. The office did very well getting us in on time, but the J-man was NOT HAPPY about being there. He certainly knows that [...]

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