Guest guest Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 WOOHOO!!!!! you have got to run the support group for PA...clearly you know how to get things done!! hmmmm -I wonder if there is someone in this group from your PA district that saw you coming and said " we better not mess with this one " !!! haha Either way -CONGRATULATIONS!!! ===== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 CONGRATULATIONS!!! I'm so happy for you & your son & that it went so well. Yvette A. [ ] IEP Meeting was Today Hi everyone! It is over.... we have now experienced our first IEP Meeting.... and darn it.... I am pleasantly surprised. I was expecting the worst, after all, even my EI Coordinator told me that they would not agree to Indiv. Therapy. Our Son will be attending the Special Ed PK 4 days per week, 2.5 hours each day. They agreed to Indiv. " pull out " Speech Therapy 2x per week for 30 minutes each. They initially started with 15 minutes 2X per week, we asked for 3 30 minute sessions per week.... We all compromised on 2 30 minute sessions per week.... they did say that they want to meet again to reevaluate this in 8 weeks. PT, OT Services and the " Summer Program " be included as well. They were very open to the concept of 1:1 Therapy with Apraxia... the Supervisor who was there also had Speech experience... she was very open to looking at all of the articles that we presented. The Matrix from the ASHA was very useful! This Supervisor asked me if I have visited the apraxiakids.org and CHERAB sites..... she seemed to know about all of our info sites, and said that she is well versed on Apraxia. They permitted us to " tweak " some of the Goals, so that they would be more appropriate for our Son... The Meeting was almost 4 hours long... and during this time, a huge snow storm started. They stayed to the end. The meeting was held in our home... because it was their " Community IEP Day " .... when they left, there was so much snow.... I felt bad that they had to drive. The IEP is not yet signed.... they wanted to change it... then they will send it to me so that I can sign it. They offered to e-mail me a copy before they send it... and said that I can call with any questions. One more thing, they send me a " Partial Draft " of the IEP prior to our meeting.... it helped to review and prepare for our responses. Even with this, the meeting still took 4 hours. Thanks everyone, for all of your advice. I was well prepared... and feel that things went well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 We recently had our first IEP meeting and it went fantastic! Like you, I went into it thinking the worse but was pleasantly surprised. My son has been attending the Pre-K Bridges program at our local elementary school for 2 weeks now and he absolutely loves it! I can see progression already. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Re: [ ] IEP Meeting was Today CONGRATULATIONS!!! I'm so happy for you & your son & that it went so well. Yvette A. [ ] IEP Meeting was Today Hi everyone! It is over.... we have now experienced our first IEP Meeting.... and darn it.... I am pleasantly surprised. I was expecting the worst, after all, even my EI Coordinator told me that they would not agree to Indiv. Therapy. Our Son will be attending the Special Ed PK 4 days per week, 2.5 hours each day. They agreed to Indiv. " pull out " Speech Therapy 2x per week for 30 minutes each. They initially started with 15 minutes 2X per week, we asked for 3 30 minute sessions per week.... We all compromised on 2 30 minute sessions per week.... they did say that they want to meet again to reevaluate this in 8 weeks. PT, OT Services and the " Summer Program " be included as well. They were very open to the concept of 1:1 Therapy with Apraxia... the Supervisor who was there also had Speech experience... she was very open to looking at all of the articles that we presented. The Matrix from the ASHA was very useful! This Supervisor asked me if I have visited the apraxiakids.org and CHERAB sites..... she seemed to know about all of our info sites, and said that she is well versed on Apraxia. They permitted us to " tweak " some of the Goals, so that they would be more appropriate for our Son... The Meeting was almost 4 hours long... and during this time, a huge snow storm started. They stayed to the end. The meeting was held in our home... because it was their " Community IEP Day " .... when they left, there was so much snow.... I felt bad that they had to drive. The IEP is not yet signed.... they wanted to change it... then they will send it to me so that I can sign it. They offered to e-mail me a copy before they send it... and said that I can call with any questions. One more thing, they send me a " Partial Draft " of the IEP prior to our meeting.... it helped to review and prepare for our responses. Even with this, the meeting still took 4 hours. Thanks everyone, for all of your advice. I was well prepared... and feel that things went well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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