IEP meeting

Today was the day we met for the addendum to Collin's IEP. The meeting went well. Even with my two little guys with me....

  Anyway per the Dr Davis's report and suggestion we have added a social skill group to Collin's IEP. Since there are only 4 1/2 weeks left to the school year we will start this up in the fall. Although this was the MAIN reason for the meeting. Because they can't make ANY changes even little ones with out a meeting. However this meeting ended up being a blessing. Since the last meeting his annual IEP meeting in February some things have come up and we were able to talk about them today.

A big one is the "tick" I mentioned it to ALL of them and Collin's classroom teacher said she had been seeing it. Which I knew, but the OT person also said that she has been noticing it and was glad I brought it up because she was gonna ask me about it. Another semi alarming thing she said was that it seems like Collin is LOOSING strenght and muscle tone in his upper body..He has always been weaker on his left side and we knew that and have been dealing with it, but as of late he is more floppy and weaker in his upper body. Even doing simple fun tasks like the rocket launcher. (You know the ones we had as kids that you step hard on the "bladder" and it makes it blast off.) She has him do it with his arms and he can't do it. So that along with the tick is cause for concern. We also decided that his reading is falling way behind his peers so they are gonna do a 30 minuet pull out starting in the fall as well as having the Para help him in the classroom.

 Collin's IEP was written in February of this year, and they are good for a whole calender year. So it was good to make this amendments to them today and have them set for the fall instead of the school year starting and waiting 6 months to make the changes.

 So that is how the meeting went. Between talking to the support staff today and Dr. Davis' the other day about the tick, I am gonna try and see about giving Collin's Pedi a call and talk to her about the new things going on....again, I feel like it's always something