1st Half Year Report from 1st IEP

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Registered: 04-06-2005
1st Half Year Report from 1st IEP
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Mon, 03-27-2006 - 11:48am

My DS teacher sent his 6 month report home last week. My DS goes to an Autistic Support Classroom 4 days a week for 5.5 hours a day. His IEP has 6 measurable Annual Goals, each with about 4 to 6 Benchmark Goals. In two of the Annunal Goals he is making little or no progress in any of his Benchmark Goals, in one he is making a little progress, but not enough to make the Annual Goal and in 3 he is making reasonable progress and seems on track to meet Annual Goals.

He is 3.5 years old and the past six months has been his first preschool experience.

So the question I have is, is it normal to have one or two annual goals where they aren't making any progress at the halfway point? I distinctly remember feeling good about the goals we had written at his IEP in August because they seemed so attainable. But now I am really second guessing myself and wondering what to do and how to proceed.

Does anyone have any input as to what I should be asking for in this meeting? Of course, the Goals where my son is failing to make progress are on the social pieces of school, interaction with peers and kindergarten readiness and stuff.

Should I ask for a TSS, someone dedicated to him to help him stay on task and limit frustration? Apparently, my son does tantrum at school (although they say it has dramatically decreased in frequency from the beginning of the year), which was suprising to hear because my son never tantrums at home and it's not because I let him get away with murder, either. Also, my son really seems to like school and has become measureably more verbal in the past three months. So am I just worrying for nothing?

Has anyone seen growth in their kids abilities with a TSS in place?

Thanks for reading,
Gemma

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 03-27-2006 - 6:07pm

He should be making progress by now on his goals. I would be really concerned that they don't feel he will meet 3 of his 4 goals. In my book that is unacceptable.

There are cases where kids really take longer than one year to meet some goals. Typically these are the more abstact ones as a child gets older and they are tougher to meet than in one year. Often some of the social skills objectives and language objectives that are supposed to be generalized to all environments are tougher. Also sensory regulation, time on task, those kinds of things that are harder to measure and to have happening across the board during all activities.

I would ask for a couple things.

1) Why is he not making progress? On our progress reports if a child is not making sufficient progress then they must also mark why they aren't.

2) How have they been addressing the goals?

3) How much time are they spending on the goals?

4) What are they going to change so he starts making progress?

Renee

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