Thanks Carol. I appreciate you reading and commenting on my pre-school transition threads. I wonder if I'm the only one who has had this much trouble? Is there something wrong with ME or my school district or what? No one else seems to have/or have had these issues. ??
I was right. That classroom was full of kids in wheelchairs, gait trainers, standers, and getting tube feedings, meds, etc, etc. Obviously not the LRE for Johnny (or any kid) Even if Johnny still had a need for some/any of those things, I would want him in a more "regular" room!
There WERE peer models, but sadly, not ones that demonstrate the clarity and patterns of speech I'd prefer Johnny to speak!
I asked why they would want us to view this classroom and how they thought Johnny would benefit from it more than the other two we'd viewed
and she said it was a 4 hour program vs. a 2 1/2 hr program since I'd expressed that I want his feeding skills worked on in school. They have breakfast and lunch in that 4 hours but no snacks. ??? Johnny still gets breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner, and bedtime snack. Even Myla still gets a mid-morning snack in her Kindergarten class so I'm not sure what that is all about.
Here's the plan. I want him to go to the second room we viewed WITH an aide who could taper off as his skills, independence, motor, and safety/health issues warrant, and have one meal and one snack there that the could focus on working on his feeding skills with him. Is that too much to ask for? Really...
Off to enjoy a nice Thanksgiving holiday with my family.
Johnny's Journal:
http://www.caringbridge.org/oh/johncamden/index.htm>
