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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 [...]

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 [...]

Vision Therapy

AmericanFamily — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:14:52 +0000

Holy crap, I looked through the questions I have left to answer and I may be answering questions until groundhog day. Please bear with me as I try to knock some of these out!

Kate from the Industrious Eye asks:

I’d like to hear more about your experience with vision therapy for L. Did you [...]

Nablopomo day 8

AmericanFamily — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:51:49 +0000

Tonight M told me that a boy and a girl in her class are “dating”. She said it somewhat ironically with air quotes, but seriously, 8 year olds are “dating”? Oh man.

Also, I gleaned that piece of information on a walk to the library. Score one for asking vague questions when the kid doesn’t [...]