Our First IEP Meeting To Discuss Aiden’s Education
Aiden will be turning three in August, which means that he will be starting pre-school in the Fall. Because he has Childhood Apraxia of Speech, he’s considered to be “special needs” by the school district. This means that there needs to be an Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting to determine the level of care that Aiden will require. For many people, these can be difficult meetings.
Chrissy, Felice and I met with some people at the NISEC office, including the case worker, one teacher, a speech pathologist and the district supervisor. We had already given them a lot of documentation on Aiden’s progress, including reports from two speech therapists and a set of recommendations from First Steps. From that, they had determined what they believed his needs were.
Their recommendation was for two days (three hours per day) of inclusion pre-school per week in combination with one half-hour session of speech therapy. We had already toured the classroom and determined that Aiden would be all right, but students are bused there. The alternative was for one half-hour speech therapy session per week at our local school, without the interactive class time.
After some negotiations, we were able to get Aiden two days of AM pre-school per week (Tuesday and Thursday) with a half hour of one-on-one speech therapy on each day. Aiden will also be attending private pre-school at TLC two mornings a week (Monday and Friday) and an hour of additional speech therapy at St. Margarets once per week. He’ll be a busy little boy, but we’re doing all we can for him.
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