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[Sophie♥Hatter]

Jacob has started his screening for child find/project able. It is our school districts special needs preschool.

I had my first conference with the nurse and one of the administrators. She just called me yesterday to schedule his evaluation (in a toy room with a OT, ST and spec ed teacher) which will be in the end of March. If he gets in the program is 2 and 1/2 hours Mon, Tue, Thur, and Fri with Wed being home visit days. They bus him from there to his daycare if needed as well.

They have their programs inside various elementry schools in town (it is a state program) and they have one in the elementry school Darian will be going to next year as well.

She gave me the info to contact the project able there and the one at Rogers (the neighborhood school for where we live now) as well so I can go observe the class.

[Sophie♥Hatter]

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[Victoria]

That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO awesome!!!!!!!!!! Have you thought about Head Start too for after his sessions?!

[Sophie♥Hatter]

Head Start here is just for low income kids here...which we will be now. HHHHMMM I had not thought about it at all because before we could not quailify. Thanks for the idea.

I was really worried about his potty skills because it has been an uphill battle but she said with Project Able they actually make that one of the kids goals if they havn't mastered it yet.

[Victoria]

Originally Posted by Sophie♥Hatter Head Start here is just for low income kids here...which we will be now. HHHHMMM I had not thought about it at all because before we could not quailify. Thanks for the idea. I was really worried about his potty skills because it has been an uphill battle but she said with Project Able they actually make that one of the kids goals if they havn't mastered it yet.

That is great! Project Able sounds like a wonderful program!

Ethan wouldn't have qualified either, since our income is over the limit, but since he has an IEP, he does automatically qualify!
He's been on the waiting list for going on 5 months now.

[NewBeginnings]

That's awesome hon...
Maddie had a physical therapist come out once a week (thanks to Tricare)..
She did really well with it..

[Sophie♥Hatter]

Originally Posted by NewBeginnings That's awesome hon... Maddie had a physical therapist come out once a week (thanks to Tricare).. She did really well with it..

We didn't go through tricare we went through our states early intervention program which was easier to deal with then tricare. (we go through tricare for his developmental pedi which he sees every three months though) he ages out of that program when he turns 3 so they atart eveling them for the next step with is done through the public school system at 2.5 (which he is just slightly over) since it is so late in the year he won't start project able until the new school year. This way though he should still be able to get home visits for June - August since he ages out of AZEIP in the end of May.

[Donna]

Chris just did the meeting with the ST, OT and a special ed teacher. It was neat to watch them interact with him and them tell me exactly what they were looking for and what not. I learned some things that I always thought was normal. Guess not. They are doing up Chris' IEP to LA standards for when he starts kinder in the fall to get ST at school.

[Sophie♥Hatter]

Originally Posted by Donna Chris just did the meeting with the ST, OT and a special ed teacher. It was neat to watch them interact with him and them tell me exactly what they were looking for and what not. I learned some things that I always thought was normal. Guess not. They are doing up Chris' IEP to LA standards for when he starts kinder in the fall to get ST at school.

Well that is good, I know what you mean about the what you think is normal bit. I get so used to Jacob and he has made SO much progress that I forget how far behind he is from other almost 3 year olds.

[itsalwaysme]

Thats awesome! K is in head start, even though we are far above the income guidlines!