-Daniel "graduated" from Tennessee Early Intervention in June (when he turned 3). In August he started attending speech therapy at Union Elementary 2 days a week (30 minutes each day). We have been praying that he would be approved for a "peer class" as we have felt that being around other kids would really help with his development. Ms. Lisa (speech therapist @ Union) ............that Daniel would greatly benefit from the "peer class" and recommended him for the classroom setting after working with him for a couple of weeks. We were excited to hear her recommendation and patiently waited to get the call about scheduling his IEP and finding out which school he would be attending. (We had our fingers crossed for Benny Bills because we knew the teacher there was AWESOME.) We were so excited when we got the call and found out that Daniel would be attending Benny Bills and Ms. Linda would be his teacher. (Ms. Linda is part of our church family is wonderful with kids.)
-We attended the IEP meeting today. Daniel will attend Benny Bills 2 days a week (Tuesday and Friday) for 6 hours (7:40 - 1:40), he will get one-on-one speech therapy for 30 minutes each day. Daniel will be evaluated for other possible delays and the days he attends may increase if other delays are discovered and other therapies are needed. We met the vice prinicpal, the speech therapist, the school nurse, one of the teacher's assistants and the teacher (we already knew her) today. We toured the school and spent some time in the classroom. Daniel was so excited to be there and really did not want to leave. He set in the chairs, checked out the bathroom, played with a few toys and looked at a few books while we were there. His first day of school will be this Friday (9/25).
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