Luca's First IEP

Many of you are wondering...what is an IEP? It is an Individual Education Plan. I hoped my children would never have one but now that Luca does and needs one I am most certainly grateful for the laws protecting the needs of every child (which is what this document aims to do). It is a live document that follows a child from 3 years old to high school graduation. It gets rewritten every year with goals and accommodations for the student. It also states how many mins. of therapy Luca gets a week and in which areas.
Luca qualifies for services in the areas of physical ,occupational therapy and adaptive/life skills.
Some of Luca's goals include:

• drawing lines and shapes
• self feeding
• using the potty
• going up a flight of stairs
• kicking a ball and stopping it
• riding a tricycle
• learning to run
• carrying materials around the classroom
• helping to put his coat on- dressing

Typically, Luca would being preschool in Seattle Public Schools on his third birthday but the schools are all full. Luca will keep getting therapy through Boyer (and his current PT and OT) and then he will start school when a spot opens up this fall .

There were also accommodations written into his IEP about technology and assistive equipment as needed to participate in the classroom to achieve his goals. 

He also gets door to door busing service from our house to the school which is great!