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going to battle

AmericanFamily — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:01:48 +0000

L’s IEP meeting happened today. It was a fairly unpleasant experience, which was greatly amplified by cramming 7 people into a small, unairconditioned room. I think they were trying to sweat an agreement out of us.

Long story still pretty long (I need to vent this, I know it isn’t fascinating reading to anyone but [...]

unraveling the mystery

AmericanFamily — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:44:59 +0000

This week has been a flurry of research (and waiting on hold trying to schedule appointments) to figure out what is going on with L. We are scheduled to meet with a neuropsych later this week. Hopefully he will help us figure out what additional testing we need.

In the meantime, we got an OT [...]

Two emails I sent today

AmericanFamily — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:59:03 +0000

email number one:

Hi Mom,

I ran across this article today.

It says much more articulately than I can one of the primary reasons I have not allowed my girls to go to church. It is also one of the reasons I decided to no longer call myself a Christian. I know this has been [...]

Any speech/language pathologists/IEP experts in the house?

AmericanFamily — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:59:37 +0000

We are knee deep (soon to be neck deep) in L’s IEP /transition to kindergarten process. It sucks. It royally sucks.

I spent my morning crying about one of her stupid test results even though I know that it is totally no indicative of L’s abilities. The crappy score she got on that one test [...]

IEP

AmericanFamily — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:57:31 +0000

I am going to change gears a little. Today, I had L’s annual IEP meeting. The best thing about it was I didn’t cry (unlike last year). It is amazing how much of a difference a competent teacher is making for L. She also has an Occupational Therapist who is really working to help unravel [...]