Another IEP done

So I now have 2 kids with IEPs.  I'm still a little miffed that they waited until almost the last freaking day they had to have this meeting and I had to call to get things moving and then get told "Oh, he was next on my list".  Um, yeah, whatever.  The other issue is that when I originally asked for testing, I asked for a full evaluation as I was concerned about his handwriting and figured let's just do the whole thing and be done with it and the school psychologist played games and said point blank that she refused to sign-off on it.  After going round and round with her for 2 freaking hours I gave up and rescinded the request.  Then at the meeting, they ask point blank about his gross and fine motor skills and I bring it up and then tell me to write in requesting an evaluation of that if I want them to look at it!  Really?!?!  These people make me nuts!

Ok, but the good news is that Nicholas starts speech next week as his intelligibility in spontaneous speech is at about the level of a 3yr old (which we already knew).  The school official running the meeting was in such a hurry that she rushed everything but since I was prepared for it, I asked about ESY (extended school year) services.  Of course, standard practice is to deny it especially for a first IEP and before he's had his first session (knew that but figured I'd start that ball rolling now).  Then the educational advocate I always bring along spoke up and talked about his diagnosis and what the standard procedure for apraxic kids is which is they get ESY because of severe regression.  The speech therapist was asked for her opinion and she said she would be able to better tell after Winter Break but that yes, apraxic kids typically do need ESY.  The school backed down at that time and set it up.  Score points for them not wanting to argue with us over that.

Now I need to figure out if/when I'm going to deal with getting Nick assessed for OT for his handwriting.  Which of course means sending in more letters, filling out more paperwork, setting up more testing, and then going to another IEP for him.  Basically getting to do everything I already did for him for the speech all over again.  Or why the heck I wanted to just do it all at once.  Ugh!