Triennial IEP - oh what fun

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Triennial IEP - oh what fun
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Tue, 04-10-2007 - 5:15pm

Hi

We had our triennial IEP and Dakota is still eligable for special services. I'm pretty happy with their recommendations and such. The school actually never got a report from Dakota's child psychiatrist on diagnosis (though they recently asked to get a copy. The doc diagnosed him with ADHD, PDD-NOS, and ODD.) They only are going by what I have told them but the school recognizes Dakota's symptoms especially the autism spectrum signs and are making necessary modifications for him. So this is good.

Next year he will be in 3rd grade which will be the last before moving onto another school for 4th. Due to this they are wanting to trial him in a regular classroom with "safety nets." This is a good thing since he is comfortable at this school and if they are going to do this, now is the time. Academic level he does well, ranges from average to high average skills. He excels at reading and math.

Socially he lacks. The teacher observed Dakota has "few preferred friends, rarely initiates play with others, fails to sustain interest in the play of others, limited understanding of the perspective or emotions of others, and lack of awareness of personal space of others." I'm sure this describes many of our children here. I had observed this when I took Dakota to his classmate's birthday party. Dakota didn't interact with any of the children there...he was seen playing by himself and not interacting at all. However his classmate was thrilled that he was there so that was good.

Other school issues is that Dakota "argues, defiant, mean/bullies others, demands attention, violates school rules, talks out, threatens others, low frustration tolerance and stubborn." Usually it isn't a problem ever since starting to take his ADHD medications last year but still has outbreaks especially in line. He has low tolarence of people getting into his personal space.

A weakness was discovered in PE even though I was already aware of it. Dakota has problems with gross motor skills such as running, skipping, throwing and catching a ball. Due to this, they are having a PT eval, which I'm glad.

Well, that was a few highlights from the meeting. Overall I'm pretty happy with their plans. The teacher did admit to me despite Dakota's "bad characteristics", he is her favorite student. Enough to bring a smile to my face.

Well, enough for now.

Shell

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Tue, 04-10-2007 - 11:34pm

Shell,


Thanks for the update. It's good to hear of a positive meeting. My DS had PT for gross motor issues, and it helped him a lot.


-Paula

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