Friday, January 7, 2011

A School for Addy

Since we moved we have been searching for a new school for Addy. This was not an easy task, especially being in the middle of the year (but nothing is easy with Addy). We had to make sure that the school had a program comparable to what she was in and make sure that it would meet her needs. Her new class is much smaller and I think the teacher is more willing to work with her on an individual level. We had a conference this afternoon to discuss the program that we found, and I feel comfortable with the decision to send her to this school.
Yesterday I took her to meet the teacher and see the classroom. The teacher expressed concerns that she couldn't write her name but if confident that with a little one on one, she can get her caught up. After looking over her IEP, the speech pathologist realized that her speech goals had not been updated since she was first evaluated two years ago. No wonder she was reaching her speech goals yet not seeming to make progress, he speech goal are not age appropriate.
We will have her annual case conference in a couple weeks so we can hopefully develop a better plan of action. I am looking forward to see how she progresses and maybe she will be ready for kindergarten next year after all.

6 comments:

  1. what school is she going to? Do you know who the SLP is? I'm a speech therapy assistant for the logansport schools.

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  2. She is going to the Methodist church preschool in Flora. The SLP is Dawn Sanders from Carroll, but the old SLP was Mike Harmon from Delphi.

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  3. Dawn in great!!! You will love her. I know both of them. Feel free to email if you ever need to!

    halla@lcsc.k12.in.us

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  4. Just from meeting her the other day she seemed like she was so much more willing to meet her needs.

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  5. sorry, that was me, Mandy, commenting. Someone else had logged in on my computer!! Glad to hear you liked Dawn. How did you get along with Mike?......I might be able to guess....

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  6. The only contact I ever had with Mike was during her case coference last year. I was lucky to get a progress report

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