One of the supports listed in my son’s IEP is the use of a visual schedule. Although it took almost two weeks, this is now in place and it is working beautifully. The SLP (Speech-Language Pathologist) actually made a different one for each of the five cycle days; here is one of them: Each schedule…
Category Archives: Individual Educational Plans
This Just In: IEP Edition
In my recent post Learning to Make Sense of an IEP, I asked for everyone to share their favorite resources on the topic of advocacy and special education. Between this site, my own blog and some emails, I got a bunch of responses and wanted to compile them here for the benefit of all of…
Try This Tuesday #5: Preparing for Kindergarten
My son has been showing some nervousness about starting kindergarten next week. Although there is an open house tonight for the students from his class and their parents, I was concerned that it would be too overwhelming for him to really take in much information. After getting some input from the autism consultant last week,…
Learning To Make Sense Of An IEP
Each time I go through the process of working with Michael’s team to write an Individualized Education Program (IEP), I get a little bit better at it. Maybe by the time he graduates from high school, I’ll have it down! Thankfully, there are a lot of great resources out there to help parents learn how…