Behind every young child who believes in himself, is a parent who believed first. - Mathew Jacobson In the first blog post I touched on some of the services Drew recieved. I wanted to dive into that a bit more. January 2018 we had our early intervention consult and we started speech services. By April we had a physical therapy (PT) consult and later that month an occupational therapy (OT) consult. We started speech out weekly, OT bi-weekly, and PT monthly. Eventually we added special instruction and increased speech to twice a week for a hour and a half. We also fit in horse riding therapy, swim lessons (I would recommend private lessons, because sitting on the side of the pool while each kid takes their turn with the instructor is NOT fun) , and dance lessons. At the age of 3, Drew aged out of Early Intervention and transitioned to the IU preschool program. We had an IEP meeting and goals were set based off his assessments. Since he turned 3 in June, he started during summer school
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