Tuesday, December 15, 2009

 
Hello again~I just wanted you to know how today went. 9 of us gathered for Kristin's placement review meeting. I had a phone conference earlier this morning with the supervisor from MESD (Mult. Education Service District) and she had done some observation time in Kris's classroom yesterday. It was very settling for me to talk with her. Observations she made about Kristin were very insightful...she reminded me of Amanda, the behavior consultant that has been such a help to us. She said they love to have kids like Krissy in their program and they do their best work with them. Her leaning was not towards the regular public school setting but rather a small community school that is quite close to our home. The kids all have 1:1 help/instruction and special care is taken to getting to understand each individual child and developing a schedule around what will work best for them with their needs. They aren't looking at this so much as a permanent placement, but during this time of upheaval (be in hormones or ???) a place for Krissy to settle and stablize. I suggested that maybe getting her in a different enviromenent may do alot to settle her and perhaps we should hold off on medication until she has a chance to see how she'll do in her new school after Christmas. She thought that sounded like a reasonable idea as well, so I felt very settled going into the meeting. Everyone was in agreement that this sounded like the best option for Krissy at this time. The school has worked hard and we really appreciate their 'over and above' efforts to help her succeed.  We hope one day Krissy may be able to go back there and do well.  So....that's it for now....Benjamin has another procedure under sedation tomorrow...I think the worst part for him besides the mask that's very scary for him in the moment, is that he doesn't get to eat for 6 hrs. before.  He keeps trying to 'tell' people to feed him by handing them different bottle parts, but they just don't get it.  Poor little guy~

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