School Monday was a little different than it has been for the past few weeks, it was basically a 'free day' for Carson. It was nice to decompress after weeks of ups and downs with Carson and not having to sit and watch the therapists struggle to get him to comply with their itinerary for the day.
I have been working on compiling a list for Jen to figure out all of the foods that Carson will and will not eat to try to work on eating better with his SPD. It honestly is hard to sit and think, 'ok, what did he have for lunch last Tuesday and what did he refuse to eat? ' It is a work in progress. I am hoping to be able to hand it in next week.
Something new that Carson has started doing in the past week is he is trying to count on his fingers. The apples song in PT right now has a verse at the end where it goes: pick up all the apples, pick up all the apples, 1-2-3, 1-2-3 and both Jen and Patty take his fingers and try to make him hold up the correct number of fingers. He now will take one hand and try to pry his little fingers up to make the right numbers. It is really hard for him. He doesn't have the dexterity to really do it but now he has figured out that each finger represents a number so now he will point to the ring finger and know that it is the number 3. It's such a neat thing to see how he is really getting things now and comprehending things that I hate to admit that I never thought would happen.
We are having an IEP meeting in two weeks and I am hoping that his goals will be modified to really challenge him this year. I am still really trying to figure out what our options are for next year. I am not sure if I am legally allowed to red-shirt him for kindergarten and have him start when he is 6 turning 7 (which would buy me another year to really figure out what is going to be best for him) . I received an advertisement in the mail yesterday for ECOT which is an online public school program (AND FREE) where Carson may be able to attend school from home online. It says that they accept children who are on IEP's but I'm not sure if that includes children with disabilities or if it's more for children with ADD or dyslexia etc. I am going to request more information and cross my fingers that they don't bug me to death with emails etc if I decide it isn't the right path for him.
The thing that I am most concerned about with homeschooling is the legal issues that go along with it. I was given the rules for homeschooling for our school district and it seems simple enough. I just have to send a letter to the Board of Education notifying them of my intentions to and send them a copy of my high school diploma. It seems there isn't a standard curriculum I have to follow (and I wouldn't be able to even if there was one) but I do have to keep notes or a log of all the things I do work with him on. But I have so many questions about the rules when it comes to the standardized testing etc considering if he were in public school his IEP would exclude him (as far as I know). Ugh. Too many things to consider at 10:20 pm when I have to get up for work in the morning so for now I will fill out my card and send it in and see what comes back to me in the mail.
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