[Ds-Autism] Update on Trisha

July 23, 2007

Just wanted to give a quick update on our request for a 1-1 fluent signing

assistant for Trisha. We had our FAPT meeting today it was agreed that

Trisha needs and would benefit from a fluent sign language 1-1 throughout her

school day. Now that we have the approval the next step is to find someone who

is qualified to work with her. We are not looking at this time for a sign

interpreter but we are looking for someone who is very fluent and who will

converse with her instead of just signing 1 word commands. The report was very

specific that it had to be more than just signing one word commands and that

it had to be consistent and throughout her school day. I just hope it

doesn't take as long to find someone as it did for us to get this approval

because

we have been fighting for this for years now. The report was awesome and

Miss Trisha shined and amazed many of the sign ability she has already with

just

the limited signs we've been using at home, the occasional signs they use at

school and her Signing Time DVD's.

The evaluator commented in the report how impressed she was at Trisha's

signing capabilities considering that the school was not consistent with signing

with her and that sign meant something to her otherwise she probably would not

have retained and use the signs she knows with what little sign was being

used with her at school.

That's one more step forward in our ever continuing saga but it's a good

step. :-)

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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