PT on the IEP

[ALLISA]

Hey guys......jsut had Erin's IEp on Thursday morning.....not bad all in all....finished in 4 hours so that was pretty good.....my Ex-hubby went too,,,,, first one he has EVER been to......it was a bit of an eye-opener I think.....he thought we'd be done in half hour and complained because now he was late for work and they didn't even know he would be late...duh.....he thinks my life is easy !!

Anyways......onto my question.....

As I figured they would, they want to decrease Erin's PT....she is very strong and able to do most tasks that are asked of her.....however she can't participate in "regular" gym and we have NO adaptive gym....just the PT......

I want him to work on things Erin CAN NOT do.....hopping, skipping, jumping on one foot.....he seems to say no.....the school "technically" does not need to teach her this.....yes he will do because I asked, but doesn't need to be written as the school is only responsible for the ACADEMIC things.....ie getting her "ready" for gym.....he has always been very helpful to us.....taught her to ride bike, scooter......

waht benefit do PT seem to be for all of you

[momofrussell]

Russell get's PT for safety reasons... and he has APE. APE does the trikes and stuff.. and PT ONLY works on goals like safely walking up stairs, not using rail... vision things... and yes... PT technically has to be "educationally" based... they work on throwing balls and that stuff too with Russell but it's NOT on his IEP

Is Erin's school/class not at a elementary school? Is that why she can't have adaptive PE? I don't see why she couldn't!

A.

[Emilysmom]

This discrepancy from state to state always surprises me!!! We have never ever had any problems getting PT for Emily at school over the years! She has low tone, but honestly..........over the last few years, I have requested that she work on stuff in PT that simply keeps her active and gets her heart rate up for the whole "work out" effect of it, rather than for any educational benefit. Over the years, she has worked on jumping on a mini-trampoline, riding a stationary bicycle, doing sit ups, fast walking around the track, running up and down the stairs, and the swimming program. I was sort of prepared at this last IEP meeting for someone to say that Emily no longer qualified for PT services, but nope!! We do not have adaptive PE at Em's school, so she participates in the regular PE classes in addition to PT. She also has gotten OT each year, and they work on upper body strengthening and fine motor activities.

Susan

[Connie]

Allisa,

We had Collin's IEP in May. Collin only gets PT 2x a month and that will probably be dropped during 2nd semester because he is basically age appropriate and they things he needs to work on really have nothing to do with acedemics. The only thing he really has trouble with is going down the stairs without holding on to a rail and using his feet reciprically. They say that since the school doesn't have stairs they don't need to worry about that.

I told them that I am fine with this but if it is still a problem in a year or two I will be bringing it up again because they have stairs in the middle school.

Our school system would not even offer Collin PE because they would not even let him go to school all day because that's not what a "Typical"child does in this district.

Connie

[CC]

Hmmm well PT is the one area Chris truly shines in and always has since a tiny guy. He got PT one on one twice a week for 30 min. each along with regular gym till he was 11 years old without me even requesting it. At 11 the school PT said he would do fine with one time a week along with gym. Honestly I wouldn't have fought them even if they said lets drop it at this stage.

As to your question, "waht benefit do PT seem to be for all of you" For Chris the answer for sure is the Quality on how he does things, KWIM He can walk truly a GREAT walk stride he has for one with DS, run, hop, ski, shoot hoops, ... in more of a normal manner due to all his PT and gym classes.

I use "normal" above for lack of a better word

CC ~