Post by Jessie on Mar 22, 2007 14:48:47 GMT -5
Glad to report things went VERY well today. With the exception of his SLP not being there . . . grrrrrrr, she had some kind of an emergency this morning (Brian thinks she's just scared of him - LOL). We could have rescheduled the meeting (they did give us that option) but even though this is Jason's biggest area of need we really don't feel we get too much from her in the IEP's anyway. So, we proceeded with the meeting. I did get her evaluation report last night so we know what she was going to report, we are just waiting to see what goals she had in mind for him.
They really can't say enough good things about him ;D. One funny thing was on the Physical Therapist's notes, she started off saying, "Jason is a sweet 14 year old boy" - I went, huh? Jason, sweet, 14 year old boy . . . all in the same sentence! LMAO!!! MUST be some other Jason!!
We did invite Jason into the meeting today (first time we've done that), but he didn't understand why he was in there so we let him go back to class when he was ready. I think he thought he was in trouble or something.
His school has a new principal this year who used to head up the spec ed department at one of the local public high schools (I had always heard really positive things about that program). We are VERY excited about her ideas of integrating the kids into the community. She realizes the value of that - yet we don't have to necessarily put Jason back into public school to get that integration. His new teacher this year is also pretty great. We talked about starting a mentoring program with kids from the local public schools, etc.
Next year will be the BIG transition plan for him. After he turns 15 next March he will start to be integrated into the older kids classroom and get even more involved with job skills. His principal was extremely pleased to see all of the improvement he has made (based on his psych eval) and fully expects him to be able to handle meaningful employment in the future as well as being fully confidant that he would be able to live in an environment that maybe he would room with someone else and just be checked on daily. Phew . . . it was soooo great to hear some positive things from his school. His previous teacher and his SLP have always been a little more gloom and doom than that, so this was a hugely encouraging conversation today. Maybe everyone on the team needed to see those numbers just like we did to really see that he can and has progressed a great deal. Daddy was a little unnerved by all of our plans for Jason's future, but he'll come around eventually!!! LOL Oh yeah, I also just laid it out to him that Jason WILL be attending an overnight camp next year - I'll give him one more year to get comfortable with the idea, but it's going to happen! I'm really not that tough normally, but I put my foot down today. (see Jeff, sometimes we even have to pull out the big guns on our spouses, not just teachers).
We finally feel like we are on the same page with the school as far as goals - it used to be that he would act one way at school or do some task at school that he wouldn't do at home and vice versa. He's now pretty much just Jason at both home and school so our goals can now be the same.
Sigh . . . another IEP meeting behind us!
Jessie
They really can't say enough good things about him ;D. One funny thing was on the Physical Therapist's notes, she started off saying, "Jason is a sweet 14 year old boy" - I went, huh? Jason, sweet, 14 year old boy . . . all in the same sentence! LMAO!!! MUST be some other Jason!!
We did invite Jason into the meeting today (first time we've done that), but he didn't understand why he was in there so we let him go back to class when he was ready. I think he thought he was in trouble or something.
His school has a new principal this year who used to head up the spec ed department at one of the local public high schools (I had always heard really positive things about that program). We are VERY excited about her ideas of integrating the kids into the community. She realizes the value of that - yet we don't have to necessarily put Jason back into public school to get that integration. His new teacher this year is also pretty great. We talked about starting a mentoring program with kids from the local public schools, etc.
Next year will be the BIG transition plan for him. After he turns 15 next March he will start to be integrated into the older kids classroom and get even more involved with job skills. His principal was extremely pleased to see all of the improvement he has made (based on his psych eval) and fully expects him to be able to handle meaningful employment in the future as well as being fully confidant that he would be able to live in an environment that maybe he would room with someone else and just be checked on daily. Phew . . . it was soooo great to hear some positive things from his school. His previous teacher and his SLP have always been a little more gloom and doom than that, so this was a hugely encouraging conversation today. Maybe everyone on the team needed to see those numbers just like we did to really see that he can and has progressed a great deal. Daddy was a little unnerved by all of our plans for Jason's future, but he'll come around eventually!!! LOL Oh yeah, I also just laid it out to him that Jason WILL be attending an overnight camp next year - I'll give him one more year to get comfortable with the idea, but it's going to happen! I'm really not that tough normally, but I put my foot down today. (see Jeff, sometimes we even have to pull out the big guns on our spouses, not just teachers
).We finally feel like we are on the same page with the school as far as goals - it used to be that he would act one way at school or do some task at school that he wouldn't do at home and vice versa. He's now pretty much just Jason at both home and school so our goals can now be the same.
Sigh . . . another IEP meeting behind us!
Jessie
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Susan, Proud mom of Michael (32), Justin (25) Emily (22ds), and Jordan (20).
