I'm pondering the approach of summer with deep concern. Ok, make that fear.
What am I going to do with difficult child 2 to keep him on track. Which is code for out of the house, doing constructive activities with peers and adults on a set schedule that requires him to get up and out of the house in the mornings.
At his last IEP when we changed his classification to ED and moved him to the stand alone ED classroom we also added ESY services.
We were also told that there was probably only going to be 4 weeks of "summer school" for ESY high school students, for 3 or 4 hours a day and that they wouldn't get any high school credit for going. Plus difficult child 2 goes to 2 one week long summer camps for kids with Crohn's and they are during those 4 weeks.
So I was thinking about this just now and wondering if I could come up with something for the summer that I could get the school to pay for as his ESY services that is out of the box - not their "summer school" program but something else that would provide some of that structure and social interaction.
Anybody have any ideas? Once difficult child 2 gets out of the house he can usually handle structured situations like school pretty well as long as he goes consistently. Otherwise he gets really anxious about having been gone and then won't go - so it's a vicious circle.
Thanks,
Patricia
What am I going to do with difficult child 2 to keep him on track. Which is code for out of the house, doing constructive activities with peers and adults on a set schedule that requires him to get up and out of the house in the mornings.
At his last IEP when we changed his classification to ED and moved him to the stand alone ED classroom we also added ESY services.
We were also told that there was probably only going to be 4 weeks of "summer school" for ESY high school students, for 3 or 4 hours a day and that they wouldn't get any high school credit for going. Plus difficult child 2 goes to 2 one week long summer camps for kids with Crohn's and they are during those 4 weeks.
So I was thinking about this just now and wondering if I could come up with something for the summer that I could get the school to pay for as his ESY services that is out of the box - not their "summer school" program but something else that would provide some of that structure and social interaction.
Anybody have any ideas? Once difficult child 2 gets out of the house he can usually handle structured situations like school pretty well as long as he goes consistently. Otherwise he gets really anxious about having been gone and then won't go - so it's a vicious circle.
Thanks,
Patricia