[tri-med] catherine - spec ed schools & conductive ed

kammie goes ot a special ed only school.  she did this for 4yr old preschool
and this year in kindergarten.  she will NOT be going there next year.  i
thot she would get better therapy services there but this is not the case.
it is exactly how you describe it as babysitting.  that is not what i want
for kam but it might be what some other parents are looking for.  she needs
to be around typical peers.  the more the better.  i am already starting my
summer program search to find someone where she can be around some regular
kiddos a couple of days a week.  last summer after contacting over 50 places
i was not successful.

i recently posted to the listserv about conductive education to see if
anyone had heard of it as i have a friend in sweden with a 4 yr old full t18
girl doing it.  if you have access i would check it out.  it sounds like it
is used most often with cp kiddos.  very intensive 5 hours a day for 5 weeks
or something.  this kind of intense repitition is how kammie learns best.
the closest program to here is in california so i am not able to get kam in
it for now.  let me know what you think as i might check it out for summer
if i could find a place to stay with kam and such.
jude, mom to derek-16, kelsey-14 and
kameron-5-full trisomy 18
golden, colorado usa
http://chromosome18.org/stories_trisomy.htm#Wolpert
http://www.trisomyonline.org/wolpert.htm
http://home.attbi.com/~jfwolpert2
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Carlick" <rcmtcarlick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hey Jude, I have emailed you before about my beautiful princess Matilda -
I
> am very confused about her schooling and what to do with her and your
email
> caught my attention - does Kam go to a special needs school?  I'm not
eager
> to send Matilda to our local special needs school because I tend to think
it
> could be just a baby sitting service not a place of education.  Matilda
> yearns for so much and is so eager to learn.  We are just in the process
of
> learning about conductive education and it's benefits - has anyone else
had
> experience with this??



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