I do it for this cute face. Plus it's my job as a parent to insure that my children get the education and intervention they are entitled to, disabilities or not.
Even if he decides to eat mashed potatoes with his fingers ONLY..thanks Oobi for that encouraging episode.
Max had his IEP meeting last week and we've been waiting anxiously for it. Honestly I went in pretty set on the fact that we would be denied services for him.
Well we weren't, which is a good AND bad thing. He will be receiving speech services and occupational therapy services as well. This is what Damian has at school as well but for different issues. Max has a severe receptive language delay and only a mild delay in his expressive language. Actually they were pretty confident he will pick up his language in time for school.
O.T. is for his sensory needs and we'll follow a sensory "diet" at home for him. That's basically the activities for his specific needs. Damian has a diet we follow as well because of his low muscle tone and gross motor skills.
That was the good part. The next part is good and bad because I had them do an autism assessment on him which came back fine..he's not autistic according to them. That's great! But because of that he won't qualify for a day class like Damian had. They don't have just speech handicapped classes in Elk Grove like they do in Sac. So if we want preschool we have to find our own. They gave me a name to a good preschool here in Elk Grove so we'll look into that.
So that's the update on Max! Speech next door and O.T. at another site. Not bad for fighting for what you want!
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