Brandon's IEP Meeting

This morning was Brandon's IEP Meeting. Everyone thinks he is making great progress. They ran all sorts of test, but the Director says she wants to run some more that are non-verbal to get a better idea of his cognitive strength. Everyone believes his biggest issues are with language, specifically his word retrieval. The speech and language therapist is going to try to teach him ques to help him find the right words when he has a problem. Another issue is that Brandon is very self aware of the issues he has. Unless he is familiar with a person his is less likely to speak and withdraws till he gets to know them better. We all agree that it may take time for him to get to know his new teacher next year. Although we didn't meet all his goals from last year I still feel that this years goals are very aggressive. There were some that stayed on for him to continue with. They upped his attention goal to 15 minutes. This means they want him to say on task with less than 2 prompts for 15 minutes. That is a huge goal. They have the math goals about the same. He is starting to get the concept of adding and can do problems with 0 and 1. He needs to be able to do all problems up to 10. He is able to count to 30 with few mistakes, but needs to get to 100. Reading will be working on him sounding out small words and sight reading about 15 words. The OT therapist wants to work on him only using his dominant hand to color and write. We will be working on increasing his finger strength to help in this. I plan on getting some therapy putty and small Legos for the summer. All and all I was pleased. I will be interest to see what the next couple of test show. I'll let you know.