Planning for school
The CSDI (Centre de services en déficience intellectuelle, meaning Service Center for Intellectual Deficiency) has a subdivision for people with PDD, called the SRPTED (Services Régionaux pour Personnes avec Troubles Envahissants du Développement, or Regional Services for People with Pervasive Developement Disorders). The SRPTED are responsible for Alex's Behavioral Program that he's following. Their evaluations rank Alex among the strongest. Everyone is unanimous that he obviously intelligent, he just doesn't learn like most people, and doesn't interact with reality like most people. Of course! Since his brain doesn't process information the usual way, that makes for some pretty interesting situations.
They said Alex would be ready to start preschool in September.
So, I went at the school to put his name on the list of preschoolers for September. They gave me the contact information for the lady in charge of the integration program for children with special needs, Ms. Sylvie Paquin. She supervises all the schools in the School Commission territory.
I had to call her back, since she didn't give me news after she went to Alex's child care to evaluate him. School was about to be out for summer...
Then it's been calls back and forth, forth and back, and vice versa, between me, Ms. Paquin, the School Principal (we played phone tag for a while before we could get in touch), the SRPTED... Meetings, evaluations, updates, follow-ups, forms to fill, phones to make... And that's just for his entry in school, in September.
The teacher of the preschool class is supposed to call me back. Still waiting. Isabelle (Alex's therapist) and I will meet with the teacher so we can start planning what skills we should make sure Alex masters, how she works, how the class is organized, etc., in order to help smooth out the transition. Isabelle prepared a kind of portfolio for Alex for the teacher. Tuesday, Isabelle and I will meet to discuss it.
I also finally received a reply from the federal gov. regarding my son. We're gonna have a supplement as he meets the criterias for handicaped children. You bet he does!
With luck, next week, we'll also meet with the teacher.
You know... The real nerve-wrecking thing about Alex being handicaped is not so much his handicap. It's the paperwork and procedures that I must go through. THIS drives me crazy.
They said Alex would be ready to start preschool in September.
So, I went at the school to put his name on the list of preschoolers for September. They gave me the contact information for the lady in charge of the integration program for children with special needs, Ms. Sylvie Paquin. She supervises all the schools in the School Commission territory.
I had to call her back, since she didn't give me news after she went to Alex's child care to evaluate him. School was about to be out for summer...
Then it's been calls back and forth, forth and back, and vice versa, between me, Ms. Paquin, the School Principal (we played phone tag for a while before we could get in touch), the SRPTED... Meetings, evaluations, updates, follow-ups, forms to fill, phones to make... And that's just for his entry in school, in September.
The teacher of the preschool class is supposed to call me back. Still waiting. Isabelle (Alex's therapist) and I will meet with the teacher so we can start planning what skills we should make sure Alex masters, how she works, how the class is organized, etc., in order to help smooth out the transition. Isabelle prepared a kind of portfolio for Alex for the teacher. Tuesday, Isabelle and I will meet to discuss it.
I also finally received a reply from the federal gov. regarding my son. We're gonna have a supplement as he meets the criterias for handicaped children. You bet he does!
With luck, next week, we'll also meet with the teacher.
You know... The real nerve-wrecking thing about Alex being handicaped is not so much his handicap. It's the paperwork and procedures that I must go through. THIS drives me crazy.