admin | January 2, 2009
Anyone who has a child currently receiving Early Intervention services that will be turning 3 in less than 6 months, should start asking questions and getting information about the transition process, NOW. By transition, I mean the process by which a child who has an IFSP and is receiving services through an Infant-Toddler program (IDEA-Part [...]
admin | January 9, 2009
Continuing from Part 1 of my post… Prior to our pre-”transition meeting” meeting last month, I knew very little about the districts preschool program. Initially, we encountered a bit of resistance because the districts administrators insisted that we couldn’t schedule a meeting until 60 days before Lyra’s 3rd birthday. However, I knew that was not [...]
admin | February 24, 2009
In my last post about Lyra’s IFSP-IEP transition, I said I would post the answers to my questions, in my next post. I apologize for keeping you all waiting for so long. I had intended to write that post before Lyra’s transition meeting on February 6th. We have already had that meeting, so I have [...]
admin | April 3, 2009
Below is a link to a copy of the written report from Lyra’s latest Functional Vision Assessment. We really got a lot of useful information from this assessment. It was very thorough. I will write about this in more detail when I have a bit more time, but I wanted to go ahead and at [...]
admin | April 22, 2009
So… I finally got that observation at Lyra’s preschool…just 4 days before she was scheduled to begin her evaluation period. The afternoon preschool class goes from 12:30PM to 3:30PM and I stayed and observed for most of that time. I think it went well overall. Lyra’s teachers have been really nice and very open and [...]
admin | May 6, 2009
From the very beginning of this whole process, I’ve known that our biggest challenge would be getting the school district to teach Lyra Braille. I very quickly learned just how big that challenge was going to be. On Lyra’s first day attending the preschool for her transition, I dropped her off at her classroom and [...]
admin | May 12, 2009
Prior to this first IEP meeting, we had put together our own list of possible goals for Lyra. They were in a very rough draft form and I wasn’t exactly sure what the best way to word them would be. My plan for writing them was to follow the Smart IEP guidelines, but because I [...]
admin | May 15, 2009
Troy and I, and the rest of Lyra’s IEP team met for a 2nd time to continue where we had left off during the meeting the week before. Like the first meeting, this one also lasted 3 hours, but it was a much more productive 3 hours. We were able to get the IEP completed, [...]
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