Well I did it.I changed Josh's Dx & IEP
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| Wed, 10-04-2006 - 2:32pm |
Today I had Josh's IEP meeting to have Speech Therapy put into his world. And I finally wnet in full thrusts and asked to have his Classification changed to now say Autistic. According to his Developmental peditrician and my SIL who works for the Child Advocate this will entitle Josh to more interventions.
His SpeEd teacher from his SIP class, his Guidance Counsler, his old Pyschologist from elementary school and his OT person were all there and all agreed with me. We talked about Josh's behavior, the alll over the map standarzed test scores etc and we told theSpecial ed board that we felt Josh needed more help. Josh's IQ tests were putting him into tthe low Average intelliegence range. and a big factor was his deficences in language esp comprhension , pragmatic etc. Things thta might affect the outcome on any test. the differences we well to me mind blowing. I know Josh is a smart kid so hopefully changing the classificastion will help.
In addition to adding the speech to his world we also had OT and Social Skills counseling. But now with the the Autisim label, we will now have an Autisim consultant. From what I understand this person will go into tJosh's classroom to observe Josh and his behavior, the getting out of his seat, speacking out of turn, asking things not pertaining to subject etc. Plus this person will talk to us. And then we will come up with a BIP. A behavioral intervention program? Did I get that right? But the idea is to well put some sort of a handle on Josh's behavior.
I don't want to change him persay but I do want him to be able to function. I also put him back on meds. We have now started on Focalin 20mgs. from what i understand it is in the same realm as Concetra but hopefully not all of the side effects and hopefully will work better than the Concerta did where I really didn't see that much difference.
I have been slowly but surely getting in to this learning to be more of an advocate. I also joined SEPTA. I guess it is hard to accept a child with so much. The foot was easy surgery can fix it maybe only so much but it can be fixed but it will always be different, but you will always be able to see it.
ASD, ADHD they are harder to well understand, harder to fix. No magic surgery, no magic pill. And you can't always see it.
We here is to hope.
Rina

Congratulations!!! I hope the changes help. :)
Samantha