tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213274210281482944.post1655953602290941045..comments2013-04-23T10:15:44.284-07:00Comments on Drake and Lulu: IEP DayKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03886630240463951270noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213274210281482944.post-10143912015365633102010-08-27T17:30:53.582-07:002010-08-27T17:30:53.582-07:00We are a few months behind you guys. They are jus...We are a few months behind you guys. They are just starting the evaluation process for Alex's IEP. His meeting will be at the end of next month. We already know that Alex will qualify on physical and developmental/speech levels.<br /><br />We were originally leaning toward an inclusion classroom, much like you describe (8 SN kids and 25-30 typical preschool Head Start kids) but are hesitant that Alex will get lost in the shuffle and that he still needs more personal attention. And he is not walking yet either. <br /><br />So for now we are leaning towards the self-contained classroom and just trying to find the right one. The goal is that perhaps next year Alex might be ready for a full-inclusion setup. It sounds to me like Drake is more advanced verbally and socially than Alex so that will be great for him!<br /><br />Our preschool classes started last week so we are asking to observe two of the stand-alone SDC classrooms to get a feel for how Alex would fit there and what types of other kids are placed there. We observed the full-inclusion classroom in the spring so we had an idea what that was like already.<br /><br />Definitely a great idea to wait on signing the IEP until you've observed the actual placement.<br /><br />Sounds like you are off to a great start! We can compare notes along the way since we are in CA too (although different county/districts.)Hopeful Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339776324264791028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213274210281482944.post-4359747730882106622010-07-31T14:12:14.803-07:002010-07-31T14:12:14.803-07:00We are behind you guys age wise, so I don't ha...We are behind you guys age wise, so I don't have experience in this area of decision making (and am glad to be able to watch my internet freinds' progress to help me out!!), but, I think Hannah has benefitted enormously from being in a day care setting where she sees kids ahead of her and strives to catch up. Now that she walks she is not much behind her peers, just more easily tipped over, and her next challenge will be to transition to the post nursery class, which means a playground setting of wood chips. I find wood chips hard to walk in myself, but I think in the end the challenge will be good. But I am spending a lot of time thinking right now about what I will want to look at next year when she ages out of early intervention and will be offered somethng in the school system. I don't want to be a special needs snob, but I want mainstream or integrated, since I think we don't really have cognitive issues although she is slow to talk, so I don't want her not to see kids she needs to strive to meet cognitively. I hope I don't offend by saying so, but I want Hannah to be in the middle of the range of ability, or even at the bottom working up. God I hope I don't guess this wrong, but as a typically developing "smart" kid, when I was the smartest or the best at reading, or whatever it gave me an easy out, and I took it right out to the pot smoking 8th graders and then dropped out of high school. ELP didn't really exist then, we were just beginning gifted programs and the ones I went to were lame. I needed to be challenged and when I wasn't I bailed out. I don't know if this translates to a girl with motor skills deficits but I don't want her to not be really challenged, as it went so badly for myself and my sibs. Does this translate to my kid with CP? I wish I knew . . .GingerBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09976594257345428901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213274210281482944.post-88732479811995094592010-07-30T20:42:56.661-07:002010-07-30T20:42:56.661-07:00Sounds Great! We don't have mixed classes unti...Sounds Great! We don't have mixed classes until kids are four here, so Charlie will be in all special needs this year and hopefully in mixed classes next year. Hopefully. He's so dang pig headed it might be an uphill battle this year.Katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02189007616883663434noreply@blogger.com