and finally the email I got today from the reach program/ctss.
what is the best way to respond??
difficult child was upset today when she arrived, she expressed some frustrations
with- not having her school bag - she went to the Occupational Therapist (OT) room with- staff to have
some time to express this frustration & prepare herself for the day,
she then found out that she was unable to attend a party with- her team due
to not having her homework completed as expected over a length of time.
difficult child was emotionally upset when she arrived to group yet was able to
process her choices which brought the consequence of not being able to
attend the team party & was fine when she left us.
I did rec'v your review on the family support plan - I see that this is
addressed for social worker yet feel that I need to respond to the review
on our part which states that the "express purpose of the reach program
is to work on social skills" which is something that **** & I have
stated is only a PART of the skills that we work on with- our students - we
have also worked on anger management & communication skills during this
school year alone with- difficult child, she wouldn't be successful with- social skills
with- out the learned skills from our communication sessions. Please note
that we are only reporting what we see & hear from difficult child - we are giving
weekly goals according to difficult child's needs in order to assist her in being
more successful in all settings, our goal is to assist difficult child in her
ability to achieve & be successful in school & life in general.
difficult child has been reporting to us this week that you have been picking her
up earlier, around 8 or earlier this week from the PCA's, she has said
that she prefers that extra time with- you & did have some AWESOME days
this week in school - yesterday she had ALL 5s on her point card that she
gets from us & was rewarded / praised for her hard work thru the day!!!
(YEA difficult child)
