This morning Steve and I headed to Pierremont to meet with Andrew's team of therapists and school psychologist as well as his Kindergarten teacher from Christ Prince of Peace and their learning consultant. This meeting is to discuss Andrew's progress both in and out of the classroom and to see if further testing is needed to qualify Andrew to continue to receive services from Special School District at Pierremont.
Now that Andrew is in Kindergarten, he is considered "school age," and requires a new eligibility diagnosis in order to continue to receive services. Currently Andrew receives speech, physical and occupational therapies at Pierremont. Andrew spends an hour Tuesday and Thursday mornings working with his therapists at Pierremont before starting his day at CPOP.
There was a significant amount of paperwork completed by all of Andrew's team, including Steve and I that was submitted prior to the meeting for discussion. We went through each of these areas and discussed Andrew's abilities, strengths, weaknesses and any concerns anyone had regarding his school day. After almost two hours of discussion, it was decided that Andrew go through additional testing to help determine his "school age" diagnosis through Special School District.
Steve and I were surprised at this conclusion, but agreed it will be nice to have a baseline. So Andrew will go through another evaluation (like he doesn't work hard enough as it is already) with the school psychologist. She is the one that does all of the testing. Andrew is not that familiar with her which is a concern, but it never hurts to have a new set of eyes looking at our little guy.
We just pray everything goes smoothly and it doesn't bother Andrew. He usually is eager to try and "play" new things, so hopefully he'll see it as just that. Time will tell...
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