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Well, similiar to what happened with bailey, they can't just take a

autism dx as the doctor didn't have an autism rating scale documented.

So we are having to do a tons more evals, imho we'll be lucky to get

it done by the end of the year. She needs all her evals from last

year redone b/c its been just over a year so she has to have her

academic eval repeated plus vision, hearing, etc. They also have to

do the autism ratings scales, behavior rating scales (despite us and

the teachers doing those back in november), etc which will include

about 2 more hrs of me up at the school in questionares and paperwork.

And apparantely she needs 3 seperate observations. They decided it

would be better to do 3 different people so the psychologist and

resource teacher are going to do it and it was suggested (why this

wasn't common sense I don't know) that the 3rd be the district autism

specialist. Also the speech therapist will do a full eval including

receptive, expressive, articulation and pragmatic.

I'd be worried about her missing so much class but she is not doing

work anyway so guess it doesn't matter. Last week alone she was in

the office 3 times and in the hall once (hrs at a time), 2 days didn't

do any work at all, and 2 times I had to pick her up b/c she wouldn't

get on the bus. She actually was brought in during the meeting but

they didn't want to stop the mtg.

So that was going to be it but the teachers were like no, what about

standardized testing next week. So, in the meantime a behavior plan

will be started on. A 504 will be put into place to get her small

group testing, she will start a social skills group twice a week and

they will try gum to keep her on task.

They did say that once she has an iep they can bring in the ot for

some sensory things as well. I also asked the biggest question, what

if she doesn't qualify as autism, they still said she will get an iep

for ohi. So that eases my worries that shed be stuck with only a 504.

Also the psychologist did say she had 4 other kids waiting to be

evaluated but considering all the classroom problems they would try

and get her done 1st. But still, the psychologist is p/t (4 mornings

a week) at our school so that could still take forever imho.

Strangely enough she is not having very many issues in eagles (gifted

class). But the eagles teacher has many advantages. 1st she is just

enrichment so not a lot of rote (sp) learning. 2nd she has only 13

students, 3rd she has 12 computers so not a lot of writing required as

they can do typing, it is also only 1 day a0week so maybe a novelty?

And the eagles teacher is a very experienced teacher with an older

child with adhd at home. Whereas beccas math/science teacher is her

1st year permanant position and has no kids (she is passing those

classes), her ss/english only has 8 yrs experience and only has a

toddler at home.

Oh and we talked about manipulative vs issues as they are in agreement

with me, that is such a grey area its hard to know and you don't want

to encourage the 1st at all (I was worried no consequences for all

this at school was encouraging her).

And lastly I got a gauranteed chaperone position on every field trip,

even the 1 that they don't usually have chapperones (other than the

teachers) for. Usually the parents have to take turns. So in

addition to my older dds 2 field trips dh and I are chapperoning I now

will be planning to attend 4 more (3 for 4th grade and 1 for eagles)

in case 1) she refuses to get on the bus or melts down at the even and

2) to make sure she doesn't wander off

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