Just had IEP Meeting...minutes..minutes, minutes...

[Guest guest]

Just had my 4 year old son's annual IEP meeting and am very pleased

to have gotten 120 minutes of direct (one-on-one/pullout) speech time

for him per week. He'll be having it 5 days a week. Plus his speech

teacher is in the classroom and she targets him there too. He will

also be getting 30 minutes of PT and 30 of OT. Was hoping for a bit

more on the OT, but hey, I got him 120 on the speech....I'm not gonna

complain.

[Guest guest]

Good for you!! I'm glad to hear that you were able to extract that

much time for your son. It'll be SO good for him! Congrats!

le (mom to Drew, almost 3, apraxia, DSI and hypotonia)

> Just had my 4 year old son's annual IEP meeting and am very pleased

> to have gotten 120 minutes of direct (one-on-one/pullout) speech

time

> for him per week. He'll be having it 5 days a week. Plus his speech

> teacher is in the classroom and she targets him there too. He will

> also be getting 30 minutes of PT and 30 of OT. Was hoping for a

bit

> more on the OT, but hey, I got him 120 on the speech....I'm not

gonna

> complain.

[Guest guest]

120 minutes?? Good for you!

We just had Josh's IEP this a.m. - got only 60 minutes one-on-one and

additional 40 as group. Depending on the new SLT schedule he'll have speech of

some sort everyday as well (our wonderful SLT is leaving to get a doctorate in

speech with emphasis on kids with autism). I think we're going to look into

private therapy to add to the school SLT. We compromised on the PT situation -

the PT was clearly having problems with Josh (he wouldn't work for her, he'd hit

other kids if she was working with him in relation to peers, such as getting

on/off bus, but not hitting when other people would work with him). There is

another PT but there was disagreement as to whether he needed it anymore (we

said yes, they said no) so we're having an eval done (unfortunately with the

current PT's boss - does it sound like we'll need a second independent one??)

and we'll go from there. We decided to just compromise on the current PT acting

as a consultant (she wanted to put down 1 minute weekly -

everyone balked at that - she's a jerk) but we're going to look to outside PT's

instead. OT is still 40 minutes weekly (yeah - she has some great ideas and her

son is with Josh at afterschool care) and MusicT is still the same (Josh loves

him - his only male therapist!). The district is hinting that MusicT is not

going to continue after this year for summers (we talked them into it for this

summer though) but probably will for school years only. We'll have SLT over the

summer, we hope with a SLT Josh had a few years ago and did very well with (if

only the district would hire her for school!) as well as MusicT and OT. We're

also doing Lekotek with Josh now through Easter Seals -wonderful woman who knows

Josh and is really into working with him - his first session is today.

Good job!

Sherry

seanymymiracle <seanymymiracle@...> wrote:

Just had my 4 year old son's annual IEP meeting and am very pleased

to have gotten 120 minutes of direct (one-on-one/pullout) speech time

for him per week. He'll be having it 5 days a week. Plus his speech

teacher is in the classroom and she targets him there too. He will

also be getting 30 minutes of PT and 30 of OT. Was hoping for a bit

more on the OT, but hey, I got him 120 on the speech....I'm not gonna

complain.