Thanks Taminy for explaining it SO much more clearly for me- the Speech teacher tried, I just didn't get what she was saying - your explanation is more understandable..so thanks! He has had an IEP since he was 3 and this year was his 3 year review - they did numerous assessments and it was determined by the Speech and OT to continue his IEP in both areas due to the outcome of the assessments- so that is a good thing that they have assessments backing them up - with Speech it showed that he had mastered all most all of the areas but also clearly showed his inconsistencies. The only thing about his IEP is that this past year's goals were written more based on the fact that he was being homeschooled so it didn't have any of the traditional accomodations you would see in a regular school based IEP since I was pretty much helping him by meeting his Sensory and OT needs with methods at home...so they both stated that if we put him in public school next year, we would all sit down with a big IEP pow wow and totally revamp his IEP to fit the needs in a classroom. This is where his speech teacher stated she did not want to drop his Speech off - when he is 1 on 1 and has all of his sensory needs met and he is focused, his speech is SO much better from where he was a year ago and almost all of his issues left are developmental but, when she observed him in a group atmosphere she saw a huge decline in his speech patterns because his system was so focused on all the other things around him that he lost the focus on forming his sounds correctly and many times you could not understand what he was saying because he would drop sounds. So she knew we were considering public school this coming school year and said that she was very leery about dropping speech since she knew once he was in a classroom then all bets were off with some of his speech patterns and she didn't want the IEP dropped since we would have to start from scratch all over again....she was SO happy when she completed the assessments and they showed that there was still cause for him to be staffed for speech. The OT assessments showed he very much needs to continue OT and if we do public school next year she said he would need quite a list of accomodations so that he could be successful due to his Dyspraxia....thanks so much for helping me understand the terminology better!
