Update on Zachary

Seeing as his birthday is coming up next month, we had to update his IFSP (individual family support plan). It was over a year since his last update, and they basically just updated it to ensure he will get continued speech therapy and will get an Occupational therapy evaluation before he goes into the school system program.

The plan goes like this, he will continue getting his speech at his school until his birthday, the same place that he's getting his speech therapy from will evaluate him for occupational therapy. Once his 3rd birthday passes, hopefully the OT evaluation will be done, and we will start "in house/office" visits.

I also had the chance to visit the classroom they are recommending for him for next year. It's an ASD classroom with less than 10 kids in it, they are all about integrating what therapists are working on with them into the childrens daily curriculum. They're also very into self sufficiency wich is nice too. I was able to chat with the teacher a bit, and she seems so wonderful, there's also a paraprofessional in the classroom too so the child teacher ratio is very small in that classroom. I think one of the reasons I was so enamored with the teacher is that she herself has a child with ASD, and seems very knowledgeable as to parenting challenges, etc.

I'm still waiting on a call from the school system program regarding when our meeting will be to determine placement for sure (we're almost 100% sure it will be the classroom I visited) and determine the services he will get in school as well as setting up is first IEP.