Zander's IEP

September 16, 1999

I just came from 's IEP. I was not to pleased at first when I

received a letter on Monday, the 13th, for an IEP on thursday, the 16th. It

was drummed into our heads this year the parents MUST have 10 days notice. I

wrote back and told them I could not make it at 1 pm as I was doing an IEP

myself, I needed to do Zander's later in an afternoon. Last night she called

me at home to set it up for after school today so I took an early out and

went. They want to test him for gifted, so a new IEP had to be written. It

did not say anywhere on the IEP that he is to be taught signing, so I

requested it. They wrote " he will be signed to " . I said thank you, but I

want it to specifically to state he will be taught to sign! They then added

that. I did learn they now have a full-time aide in the room who signs and

will be interpreter qualified within the next month or so. She works with

Zander and the other HI kids and they have another teacher who comes in to

the room and works with the HI kids for an hour in the room and also pulls

them out for 45 minutes a piece to work on individual skills in reading and

math. They said he is doing great and is above age level. They are a little

concerned with his blends and reading. If you met Zander you would not be

able to tell he has almost no hearing in one ear, he lip reads very well and

his speech is almost perfect. I have noticed, and so has his speech teacher

that he is no longer pronouncing some of sounds and blends correctly that he

used to, so they are working on them with him. He is aware he is not as he

said to me last night, " listen Mom, I can say 'sh','th' and 'ch', and I can

say them right again. " He told me that some of his words were sounding

funny so he asked the speech teacher. He is a charactor! Deb

Deb Cawley

Aislinn papillons

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