Re: Re: NJ - continue EI until 3 and 1/2?

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Does anyone know if NJ has an option to continue EI until the age of 3 and 1/2?

I learned from this forum that NY has this option and wonder about availability

in NJ. Thank you!

--beth

DMon98 <dmharrison98@...> wrote:

Check your state guidelines. I know in NJ, they are required to give

a minimum of 10 hours of preschool a week. Here they do 2 hrs and 15

minutes a day with services being pulled out. I think the extra 15

minutes is really to make a teacher work a " full " day if she teaches

2 sessions.

>

> Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who gave me advice over

the

> past couple of weeks.

>

> We had our IEP meeting today, and I think that it ended with a

nice

> compromise and fortunately no due process! They agreed to give

Meg

> 2 days per week of preschool with 60 minutes of pull-out/over

small

> group speech per week and 90 minutes OT per month. They also got

> her in the preschool that's only 8 minutes away but not in our

> district. And for the time being, there are only 7 children and 3-

4

> teachers and aides, so nice ratio. Not exactly the services I was

> hoping for, but still I think it will work out well because...

>

> On Wednesday we were temporarily approved for medical assitance,

so

> we can continue our private therapy sessions with no

interruption.

> So she'll have 2 days/week 30-minutes speech sessions and 1

day/week

> 45-minutes OT session.

>

> I think all-in-all, Meg has a good program of therapy. And now I

> can relax about it and watch for improvements!

>

> Thanks again everyone! I'm breathing a sigh of relief.

>

> Kerri

>