http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/ Children's Book Author Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:04:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5168 Beth Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:05:07 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5168 Can't wait for the IEP story -- oh dear, you've got me concerned it was ... erm... difficult? Can’t wait for the IEP story — oh dear, you’ve got me concerned it was … erm… difficult?

]]> http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5167 Ativities Coordinator for The Planet Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:19:31 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5167 When I was a Speech Therapist in the public school system, I was constantly taking parents aside to say, "Look, if you tell anyone I told you this, I WILL LIE...BUT..." This experience was invaluable when one of my own kiddos was plunged into the system (ST & OT and special ed. teachers visiting the house and...). I would hate to go into an I.E.P. without having had the experience and the title to do a little intimidating of my own. So, in advance of the story, empathy, empathy,empathy. When I was a Speech Therapist in the public school system, I was constantly taking parents aside to say, “Look, if you tell anyone I told you this, I WILL LIE…BUT…” This experience was invaluable when one of my own kiddos was plunged into the system (ST & OT and special ed. teachers visiting the house and…). I would hate to go into an I.E.P. without having had the experience and the title to do a little intimidating of my own. So, in advance of the story, empathy, empathy,empathy.

]]> http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5166 Jeanne Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:10:53 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/19/if-you-missed-all-the-announcements-yesterday/#comment-5166 Well, I'll go over there. But I admit that "hoooo boy," that IEP meeting has got me wondering. . . . Well, I’ll go over there. But I admit that “hoooo boy,” that IEP meeting has got me wondering. . . .

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