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[AliMama]

Ali is supposed to start at our local public preschool in the fall, which is full days, with 10 at-risk students and up to 5 special needs children per teacher and aide (so far she is the only SN child enrolled). I have some concerns and I'm not sure what I can ask for on her IEP. One of my biggest concerns is that she is a runner and the playground is not fenced in The second is that they want her to ride a regular school bus, and I don't see any way that she would stay in a regular bus seat! I have other concerns about her eating (needing a booster instead of sitting at a lunch table that's too high, needing help feeding herself, etc). I am just thinking there needs to be an aide involved somewhere here, but not sure what I can ask for legally.

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Maresa,
Mom to Alisa (10-29-2008) DS, complete AV canal repair on 3-6-2009

[Tigger]

Safety concerns and her being able to eat are really important. I could never have sent Talitha on a bus because she would not have stayed in the seat unless they put a lot of straps there to hold her in. I would never send her on a bus without an aide and she had virtually a full-time aide at preschool. Her IEP included stuff like preventing her absconding, helping her to manage her food, at the time she wasn't toilet trained so it included changing nappies as well as trying to develop independence in the routine at preschool and improving social skills, fine motor, gross motor, speech etc.

She could not have gone without an aide.

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Karyn
Mum to Nikki (Jul 89), Stefanie (Sep 96), Joel [June 98] and Talitha (DS) (Nov 05) AVSD/PDA repaired 23 March 06

"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well." Psalm 139:14

[Dylans_Mom]

the pre-school setting sounds exactly where Dylan attended, but he did not eat lunch there.... Anyways, There was 1 teacher and 2 aides in the classroom, the aides were pretty much assigned to the 5 students with IEP's. Plus all the therapies usually took place in the classroom so then there was even more eyes on the 5 students. As far as the school bus, I would fight that one, they need to provide safety. Dylan were's a vest that is zipped in the back and then the vest gets hooked onto the seat in the bus. He is going now where They should also provide adaptive seating if it is needed. Dylan is in kindergarten now and eats lunch there and all the aides sit with the kids to help them open anything they need, get their food ect. I would follow up with the school, get the stuff added to your IEP.

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Sandy (Dylans_Mom)
Mom to Hailey 3/2002, Dylan (ds) 12/2005