Transition Meeting

For those that don't know... the government covers ST for delayed children in the home from birth to 3 years old. Once the child turns 3 the local School District takes over by offering free preschool & therapies to children that qualify. Emily more than qualifies!

We had our first Transition Meeting! Unfortunately Matt was not able to make it but I am glad because it only lasted for 20 minutes (it would have been a waste for him to take off). There were 5 school representatives, Ms. Deann (our Early Intervention rep.) & myself in attendance. We went over Emily's medical history, her testing scores & her progress reports from Ms. Amber (ST). She was accepted into the program without any further testing. I told them that our current ST strongly feels that Emily has Apraxia & wanted more information on how that would be handled in the school setting. Their ST was out of town so they will be talking with her about it when she returns. They knew what Apraxia was & that it took lots of therapy to make progress. The school is 4 days a week for 3 hours a day. They would like her to begin once school resumes after spring break so her first day will be March 30th.

We have our IEP Meeting set up for March 11th. This will be the big meeting!! We will set up the goals we have for Emily & how they will be met. Including how much therapy she will receive!! I am hoping to get at least 30 minutes a day of one-on-one therapy with the SLP (speech language pathologist). That would be 2 hours of ST at school a week. Our insurance will cover approximately 5 ST sessions in a month so we could have a hour of ST in home. That would give Emily 3 hours of speech every week! I am not sure about the summer but I am hoping that the school will allow her to do a summer program. I have heard of so many children with Apraxia regressing during the summer months. If they don't offer her something we will have to pick up on the in home therapy during that month. Right now we are very thankful that we are able to get help from the government & the school district to help Emily! (therapy is extremely expensive) 

She is a wonderful child that deserves to be heard! We are truly blessed to have her in our lives!

Alicia