Sean's 1st IEP meeting

Sean's IEP meeting  went well. Took longer than expected, but Sean will have speech 2x a week for 30 mins. 1 session will be in the classroom working on social conversation and 1 he will be pulled out for 30 minutes to work on things without distraction.

The SpEd teacher will work within his classroom 2x a week for 30 minutes on perfecting some things he's already doing. Both people will be going to his school for therapies. All in all it went well. We didn't have to fight for or about anything.

Everyone agreed that the speech therapist conducting the eval was not right for this preschool eval. She was completely off base on her assessment and subsequently her goals. So the goals were modified to better fit Sean's current need. Everyone commented that the speech eval didn't match any other part of the eval at all. It was really ridiculous. All of the other evaluations of him seemed to fit well with one another, but the speech one was completely off. She claimed to have not observed things that other therapists participating did see and put into their reports. And it's not that we're blind about where Sean is in his speech development.

PT put him right at 36 mos for gross motor. I feel like emailing our earl intervention "service coordinator" the results and telling her to shove that in the face of the evaluator that put him at 11-15 mos for gross motor development. Whatever.

We put in that therapists assigned to him should contact me 1x a week with some sort of note letting me know what worked & what didn't. That the therapist & teacher assigned should be assertive and let Sean know right from the start what's expected from him.

I didn't find them to be unreasonable. Certainly willing to make sure that Sean had something to strive for as opposed to remaining stagnant based on what we all felt he was capable of accomplishing. It was only recommended he stay in his current preschool because he is doing well there. All in all a good meeting and an easy transition to the school system for services so far.