IEP

Parent-Teacher Conference

December 17, 2008

Didn’t those words strike fear into your heart as a kid? Even when you KNEW you had been pretty much perfect the entire year? And that you were already making straight As in everything? Yeah… it’s worse for the parent. Maybe especially for the parents of a special needs child. We knew how awesome the [...]

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Our First IEP Process Draws to a Happy Close

August 28, 2008

We got the call today from the school system that we’ve been assigned to the school we wanted! All indications are that this school has a great Pre-K autism classroom (called “structured learning” here) with a teacher people rave about, all that and it’s just two miles from our house! We talked briefly to the [...]

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IEP Results – The Short Version

August 26, 2008

Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and well wishes for today’s IEP meeting. We appreciate everyone’s encouragement! This is the brief version because we’re feeling baked right now. After all the emotion and stress that gets invested in the IEP process, now that it’s essentially over, all we can think about doing is crashing [...]

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Of IEPs and Heartburn

August 25, 2008

‘Twas the night before our IEP meeting… blah blah blah. [Catch up on the whole IEP saga here.] Getting past our IEP meeting with the school system tomorrow can’t come soon enough. For obvious reasons, J-Man’s 3rd birthday is in a few days and he ages out of Early Intervention so we are off that [...]

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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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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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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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