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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Taking care of the youngest

I'm contemplating when to have Jon evaluated at Children's. His F!?king 3's have not slowed down. Jim is now as with the speech, that the kids have been negatively affected by his time in Iraq. They are starting to show that more babies born to Gulf War vets have birth defects such as webbed feet and hands. He wants me to search for learning disabilities and/or Speech and Language issues. So he's seeing, based off what he's read so far out of the ADHD: A Complete and Authoritative Guide from the AAP is that Jon has issues too.
The contemplation is when not if he goes in. I like the idea of him getting evaluated toward the end of the year or during summer so he can start the new year out fresh in school. If I call now we won't be done until after school starts, probably toward the beginning of 2nd quarter or so. (Josh eval was May, family meeting Aug, Joey was March with family meeting June) I'm out of commission for this type of stuff from the end of August to the middle of September providing my surgery doesn't have any complications...

In the mean time, today, I had my transition meeting with Early Intervention and the school system. This was to basically introduce Jackson's file to the school district and put them on notice to get their process of evaluations and the IEP going. It was determined that at the IEP meeting they will have the ST, OT and school psych there. I thought they said one other but I can't remember for the life of me whom. We're trying to schedule the meeting for the 10th of September. It's after my surgery and while Jim is still at home with me. Issue is 10am means if Jon is in the AM class he will need to be picked up during the middle of the meeting. It's his first day of school there so I don't want to miss it by having Jim just run and go get him. 1pm is Jackson's nap time so he's going to be too tired to cooperate and it might be just bad enough to have to reschedule him :(  Im wondering if I can't get him in the week earlier but toward the end of the week. That will put me a little over a week post op but then Jon's not in school and we can schedule a morning appt so Jackson is his normal self for the evaluation.

Such stuff to have to consider!!

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