IEP Time!

It's that time of year again, as anyone with a child with special needs knows, to review progress and come up with a new IEP. I just went today for Demi's. MUCH better than last year! Yea for Demi!

Last year, as I've mentioned here before, Demi struggled to make progress. What seemed like simple goals (trace her name, draw a stick person, cut across paper) were mountains for her. She struggled with the same tasks for most of the year. I started her on Natural Cellular Defense (liquid zeolite) last March and she finally started making progress. By the end of the school year, she had started to make progress, but not enough to accomplish her goals.

Amazingly, she didn't regress at all over the summer and continued slow, but steady, progress this entire school year. In the words of one administrator at the meeting today, "she has made amazing progress!" Her speech has increased incredibly (from barely intelligible at home to mostly intelligible to strangers), she recognizes all her upper and lower case letters, as well as their sounds, which is actually age-appropriate - woohoo! She accomplished her goals so quickly this year that we started adding new ones back in December and again in February!

Of course, none of her progress would have been possible without support from great teachers and therapists (who have remained largely the same over the last 2-3 years), but I believe NCD lifted some fog in her brain which allowed all of the learning to sink in.

As my skeptical father said at one point, "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it!" I definitely will!