IEP tomorrow and diagnostic center next
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| Thu, 12-07-2006 - 10:55am |
week. Boy what a way to prep for the holidays.
Cait's new set of testing is due home today and we are having the meeting tomorrow. As a reminder/background, Cait had her triennial evals last spring. They dropped significantly in many areas but the school said "no problem". Huh? I mean they REALLY dropped. Push comes to shove, mediation, nearly lawyers and due process and the school agrees to neuropsych testing and I agree to one tester they have in district who no longer does testing. She agreed to for us.
Now the testing is done and guess what. All her scores came back up. At least most of the way. WHAT? I am thrilled but I have a feeling the school will now say that the supports I have been requesting are not neccessary. I will have to see what they say and such tomorrow but it is just weird.
If it was just one test or one tester where her scores dropped then I would say the eval was off however, it was 3 different areas and 3 different testing situations (state standardized test, psychologist and teacher).
Color me confused. I will let you all know more when I do.
Mike's diagnostic center eval is next Tuesday and Wednesday. All day events at the school. I am anxious to hear what they say and thier recomendations.
Renee


That is confusing. I wonder what's up with that?! Good luck with everything+++++++
Samantha
Dear Renee,
Maybe they won't be completely stupid and will recognize that supports are needed for success? Now they need a plan to help with the lacks so she can grow towards success without supports, not just pull them? or is that just to much to hope for...
BANG!!! BANG!!!! BANG!!!! (That's me banging my head on the wall in frustration along with Evelyn, at the utter ridiculousness of our educational system. AAAAAHHHHHHH! OOOOHHHH, it feels very good, the pain temporarily replaces the chaos. No wonder!!!)
Sara
BANG!!!! BANG!!!! BANG!!!!
BANG BANG BANG!!!! Oh you are right. No wonder Mike likes to do it on occasion. Fortunately he is not an enthusiastic head banger and it is rare.
They (DH and ed consultant) tell me it wasn't that bad. They even seemed somewhat pleased. The evaluator is a good one. She hit most of the mark though I think she missed a couple small things, nothing too drastic that is needed for school. Basically she has bad executive functions and social skills difficulties. She scored "autism spectrum" on the ADOS instead of full autism but that is right for her and where she is at. She has strong language skills (isnt that awesome! from where she came from) no echolalia or odd phrasing, etc. THey say it is consistent with her HFA dx. The problem I have is what they came up with. They are making changes to 2 objectives. Whoopie. Like that will really change anything. And they are adding some organizational form for Cait to fill out for homework.
Overall it wasn't bad, i am just beat in this whole thing. I told DH I highly doubt it is either going to be implemented or implented in a way that it will work. So he tells me "that is why we have to have a follow up meeting in a couple months".
I snapped. I told him I have been having flipping "follow up meetings" for the past 2 friggen years nearly monthly and it hasn't done diddly yet. It would probably help if I had some backup last year from him or the ed consulant. They have just joined in this year and left it all to me all last year.
It would also help if I thought I was going to get back up nightly on my part of her homework junk at home. I have 2 classes a week next semester meaning Cait will not have me here to do the homework routine with her meaning it won't get done, at ALL. So yeah, I don't expect what they are planning is going to do diddly yet again and I spent an entire 2 hours wasting my time today. I am just totally beat on this situation and so didn't want to go today at all cause I quit.
The assistive tech guy was useless and says there really isn't anything he can recomend. Useless piece of crap.
Oh and guess what. I had 4, yes FOUR, program specialists from the district at the meeting. 4 program specialists (one was the evaluator), the teacher, ed consultant, me and dh. GEEZ
Renee