Evaluations

Fish Oil and Omega-3s – The Sort of Final Verdict for Now

August 17, 2008

We haven’t written about our fish oil/Omega-3s experiment in a while. (To catch up on the backstory, view all of the posts tagged Omega-3.) This is mostly because we keep waiting for some revelatory event to help us determine one way or the other whether it has made an obvious difference in J-Man’s progress, particularly [...]

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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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Pointers and Tips on the IEP Process (Guest Post!)

July 14, 2008

[Many good things have been happening at Chez Flashlight in the last 24 hours. Mary decided to make S'mores last night, and we have a guest poster! The expert commenter known as Gigi and her daughter Stephanie are about to wow you with some brilliant, valuable advice about Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). If you have [...]

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And colors too?!

July 2, 2008

And now something that should make upcoming evaluations even more interesting… Apparently, J-Man can identify a handful of colors too. One of our new learning-at-home activities is to do “Point to ____” and give him multiple choices, then repeat that 10 times. We’ve started keeping a notebook and recording how he does. His progress at [...]

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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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