Fabulousness!
I've been playing phone tag with Ian's Occupational Therapist leading up to his IEP meeting this Thursday. Since we keep missing each other, she said on the last message that she thinks he is doing so well that he can "graduate" out of the OT program. If something changes, we can always go back and add in OT at another time, but right now, she doesn't feel he needs it anymore.
Woo!
Then I talked to his Speech Therapist. She said that ever since he was moved up to first grade, he's suddenly met all of his IEP goals in one big jump. She was calling me to figure out what we could put down for a speech goal next year for him. (My answer was negotiating with other kids in situations where he wants to do something and the person he's playing with wants to do something else. Right now, he's having a hard time coming up with some sort of compromise. He just gets upset.)
At any rate, she is really impressed with his progress as well. He's going to go down to having speech every other week instead of every week, because she wants to keep him from being dependant on her.
Woo hoo!
So: sum total, Ian is doing very, very well. The move up to first grade has been really good for him, which is a load off my mind.
This is the first time I'm going to an IEP meeting without a tension headache and that sick feeling in my stomach. It is an interesting experience.