Lisa S
10-13-2005, 08:24 PM
Hi, I hope someone has some ideas for me. If not, thanks for letting me vent.
Catherine's IEP meeting was today. It was an annual review. Her big triennial IEP was last year. Speech therapists working for the school district extensively evaluated Catherine's speech for the triennial IEP and saw problems with every area of articulation they tested. She has distortions, omissions, substitutions, as well as other articulation issues. The Goldman-Fristoe 2, a test of articulation, indicated Catherine's articulation was below the first percentile for her age. She has a high-pitched strangulated voice quality which also affects intelligibility. She is supposed to be getting one hour per week direct one-to-one speech therapy from the speech therapist. The speech therapists she saw last year gave her one hour a week of direct one-to-one speech therapy.
In the IEP meeting today, the speech therapist, who is new to this school this year, said she has not been seeing Catherine for one hour a week so far this year and now she wants to cut Catherine's speech therapy to only thirty minutes a week. She says Catherine's and her schedule are too full to permit a full hour of speech therapy per week. She says she is only at this school all day Tuesday and Wednesday, and Thursday mornings, which are often filled with IEP meetings.
My husband asked her if he needs to speak to the Executive Director of Special Education for our school district to tell her she needs to hire another speech therapist for the school since this therapist's schedule is so full and her case load is so heavy. The speech therapist says she wants to reevaluate Catherine's articulation because she doesn't think it is that bad now. I should have known she would try something like this when she complained about her increased case load last week! If this woman thinks she will lighten her case load at my daughter's expense, she will have quite a battle on her hands!
If Catherine says something to anyone who doesn't know her very well, they always look at me with a puzzled expression and a smile so I will tell them what she just said. Sometimes even people who know her very well don't understand her. How can her articulation be just fine if this is the case?
If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them.
Lisa
Catherine's IEP meeting was today. It was an annual review. Her big triennial IEP was last year. Speech therapists working for the school district extensively evaluated Catherine's speech for the triennial IEP and saw problems with every area of articulation they tested. She has distortions, omissions, substitutions, as well as other articulation issues. The Goldman-Fristoe 2, a test of articulation, indicated Catherine's articulation was below the first percentile for her age. She has a high-pitched strangulated voice quality which also affects intelligibility. She is supposed to be getting one hour per week direct one-to-one speech therapy from the speech therapist. The speech therapists she saw last year gave her one hour a week of direct one-to-one speech therapy.
In the IEP meeting today, the speech therapist, who is new to this school this year, said she has not been seeing Catherine for one hour a week so far this year and now she wants to cut Catherine's speech therapy to only thirty minutes a week. She says Catherine's and her schedule are too full to permit a full hour of speech therapy per week. She says she is only at this school all day Tuesday and Wednesday, and Thursday mornings, which are often filled with IEP meetings.
My husband asked her if he needs to speak to the Executive Director of Special Education for our school district to tell her she needs to hire another speech therapist for the school since this therapist's schedule is so full and her case load is so heavy. The speech therapist says she wants to reevaluate Catherine's articulation because she doesn't think it is that bad now. I should have known she would try something like this when she complained about her increased case load last week! If this woman thinks she will lighten her case load at my daughter's expense, she will have quite a battle on her hands!
If Catherine says something to anyone who doesn't know her very well, they always look at me with a puzzled expression and a smile so I will tell them what she just said. Sometimes even people who know her very well don't understand her. How can her articulation be just fine if this is the case?
If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them.
Lisa