Re: It is that time of year again

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Hi Sara,Those goals seem great to me, functional and realistic. CharlyneSubject: It is that time of year againTo: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie. No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker. Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year.

Now Elie is very much a person. This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions. We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push the correct number and he will call one of his brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate. He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card.

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years. I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over. I am tired of writing social goals. Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

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Those are GREAT goals!

Heidi

[Guest guest]

Ho hum - as Elie's friend says - Elie does most of those already, but now it will be on paper! 

 

Hi Sara,Those goals seem great to me, functional and realistic. Charlyne

Subject: It is that time of year again

To: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

 

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie.  No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker.  Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year. 

Now Elie is very much a person.  This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions.  We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push  the correct number   and he will call one of his  brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of  his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate.  He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card. 

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years.  I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over.  I am tired of writing  social goals.  Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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Thanks heidi

 

Those are GREAT goals!

 

Heidi

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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Sara, he would know best. Elie is so fortunate to have him!Charlyne

Subject: It is that time of year again

To: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie. No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker. Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year.

Now Elie is very much a person. This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions. We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push the correct number and he will call one of his brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate. He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card.

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years. I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over. I am tired of writing social goals. Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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I hear ya, Sara.Here, we have to have things on the ISP that we want folks to be able to receive money to support him to do. ti will always be the same old, same old on paper. I don't see the point of worrying about documenting progress. It's jus ta paper game. No one cares about progress and meaningfullness but us.

However, when we hire folks to help, their JOB is to support the things that matter...Joan

Joan Guthrie Medlen, MEd, RD

DownSyndromeNutrition.com

twitter: @jmedlen

 

Sara, he would know best. Elie is so fortunate to have him!Charlyne

Subject: It is that time of year again

To: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

 

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie.  No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker.  Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year. 

Now Elie is very much a person.  This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions.  We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push  the correct number   and he will call one of his  brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of  his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate.  He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card. 

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years.  I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over.  I am tired of writing  social goals.  Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

[Guest guest]

I was thinking the same thing!Sara, I think those are great goals. :)Sent from my iPhone

Sara, he would know best. Elie is so fortunate to have him!Charlyne

Subject: It is that time of year again

To: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie. No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker. Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year.

Now Elie is very much a person. This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions. We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push the correct number and he will call one of his brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate. He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card.

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years. I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over. I am tired of writing social goals. Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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Oh we do beautiful paper work - even set up a check list every year for our frined - Elie's paid staff to check off the goals they have worked on that week!!  .  We always have our paperwork in order.  But Elie has a REAL life with his goals in it.  WORK - then eat.  Walk - then eat.  Do chores - then eat.  Elie has his priorities very straight!!!

 

I was thinking the same thing!Sara, I think those are great goals.  :)Sent from my iPhone

 

Sara, he would know best. Elie is so fortunate to have him!Charlyne

Subject: It is that time of year again

To: Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 6:52 PM

 

I just got notice that in MAy I will be attending another ISP for my son ELie.  No big deal this year - just a re-write of his goals! And there is the kicker.  Accoding to state references, I need to come up with 2 new goals to be worked on for this coming year. 

Now Elie is very much a person.  This feels so much like a 'normal' (to quote one of my favorite people) making new year resolutions.  We make them every year. Nothing changes. And so we do ti again.So this is what I have come up with for this year:

Elie will take his cell phone, push button number 1 and call his mother once a week.Elie will take his own cell phone, push  the correct number   and he will call one of his  brothers each week.Elie will walk with his friend to the Dollar General Store (across the acreage and within sight of  his house) where he will pick out and buy food items from his list, and use his EBT card to pay, putting in his PIN number where appropriate.  He will then walk home with his purchase and his EBT card. 

I am tired of the safety goals we have put in for 20 years.  I am tired of writing vocational goals over and over.  I am tired of writing  social goals.  Elie lives in the community and exercises these things daily.

-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.

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-- Sara- different pathways lead to Nirvana.