Today we were back to the grind and started off the day with Noah's "update" meeting at school. I guess I should back up and tell you a little bit about Noah's school schedule.
In October Noah turned 3. Once he turned 3 he aged out of Early Intervention, the state-run program that provided his PT, OT, and speech services. As we had written last year, we had to be in our new house by May in order to contact the new school system and get him set up with pre-school and services. Well as you know we did that and had our initial meeting with the school was last May. At that time it was too late to set up our official IEP meeting with the school (end of the school year) so we had to wait till September. We weren't really sure what he was going to be offered in terms of school and services, but did find out last May that the pre-school in town was only 2 1/2 hours a day. This was definitely a concern and we didn't know if there would be any extended day options. We decided we would just wait and see what he was offered and figure out a schedule once we had that. He was in a great special needs daycare at that point, that offered pre-school, and we figured we would make things work between school and the daycare. Well at the end of July we found out that his wonderful daycare was closing at the end of August. This is when panic set in and we started to think about how we were going to be able to make everything work with Noah's potential school, my full-time work schedule, and Brad's increasing travel. I really didn't want to stop working and was hoping that I could somehow work part-time.
September came and we finally had his meeting. We were very happy to learn that he was offered 4 days of preschool with two 30 minute PT and two 30 minute OT sessions a week. He tested out of speech which was also great news. We were told that if we wanted there was a potential for him to be bused from preschool daily to another daycare in town. There were two available daycares in town and unfortunately they could not accommodate him. So at that point we made the decision that I would stay at home with Noah to get him to school to get his services, and also work on increasing his home therapy. I was able to continue to work 1-2 days a week at my job until January and since then I have been home full-time.
Fast forward to today and we had Noah's update meeting. It was just to let us know how he had been doing and to see if they were going to offer him services over the summer. Well it seems that he is doing great and they continue to work on his goals, the main one being increased ability to complete bilateral tasks. This is his biggest obstacle right now and what he needs to work on prior to kindergarden. It's so hard because I forget all the little things that you need two hands to do and he still really tries to everything with one. It was good to hear that he has been working hard and everyone is happy with his progress. We also learned that he will be offered PT and OT for the summer session which runs from July 7th till August 7th. This will be perfect as we are headed off to constraint camp again in August. Can't believe we are planning the summer already!
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