Work is kicking my butt. We're trying to get a lot of corporate partner meetings before the end of the year and budgets close for donations. And I'm working on a ridiculously tedious project.
In other news, we had our meeting with the school district yesterday. DD ages out of Early Intervention at age 3 (because she's a January baby she's graced in EI until August 31) and before her birthday we needed to have her CPSE (Commitee of Preschool Special ED) IEP (Individual Education Plan) in place for September. I've been sweating this meeting because I've heard HORROR stories about how the district tries to really cut down the amount of services they'll cover. Not to mention that DD's evaluations were horrible and threw me into a serious funk. I know they're only snap shots of one moment of one day and that they're based on standardized tests, but it's a serious blow when you read that your 3 year old is at the developmental level of a 11-15 month old across the board.
So we went into this meeting and there was a slew of people. It was me and H, the Special Ed Super Intendant, a Special Ed teacher, a regular teacher, our on-going service coordinator, and the social worker from DD's current program. The first thing the Special Ed Super Intendant said to us was, "I've read the evaluations. Now tell me about her. What does she do, what doesn't she do?" H and I told him about things that weren't on the report. The social worker chimed in as did our coordinator. I think we painted a far more accurate picture and in the process we reassured ourselves a little more about what the evaluations missed.
We came out of that meeting with a TON of services at school and services at home. Due to the nature of DD's progression and the fact that with brain injury there is never a clear path to how she will develop, it was decided that we'll meet tri-annually (even before she starts her new program in Sept) to make sure that we don't need to tweak any of her services.