IEP Speak

[Brightsy]

I've noticed that IEPs tend to be written in some weird form of English not often spoken in these modern ages.

On my DS's latest the OT writes : "He has a tendency to rush when he colors. This results in "Deviances outside the boundaries."

Hmmm.. Wouldn't it have been so much easier to just say the he colors outside the lines?

(BTW, personally I find it invigorating to color outside the lines sometimes.)

 

[Libbyt]

Maybe he "rushes" and commits those heinous "boundary deviances" because he wants to GET ON WITH SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING THAN COLORING!!!

 

[Brightsy]

Yeah, like designing roller coasters.

 

[pudge the fish]

you know if I was a kid now days I would be labeled all kinds of things

I think coloring outside the lines shows being creative and doing his own thing-

they said my oldest DD was a dreamer and the world had no place for dreamers....she would never be able to accomplish anything-
except being salutatorian of her graduating class

We all need more roller coaster designers in the world

 

[Schmeck]

Since this comment was put in by the OT, I'm guessing gross/fine motor skills are an issue? Not a focus/dreaming problem, but a physical issue - one that will come into even more importance later on in development.

So, how deviant is one allowed to be before the coloring police show up?

 

[Brightsy]

My DS (7) has autism... it's a combination of a physical issue, and a focus issue. His motor skills both fine/'gross are a little delayed. When he gets hurried or distracted he'll "forget" he needs to slow it down and he'll rush, when that happens he goes all over the place. If he focuses he can stay in the lines, as it were, he just has to work at it a bit harder than others.

 

[BeckyScott]

Right before school got out, the kids in DS's class took a field trip to Dairy Queen.

The permission slips have a place on them where you have to fill in the "purpose" of the field trip. I guess it must be educational, you know. So a field trip to Dairy Queen as an end-of-the-year treat translated into a study of consumer goods and services, observation of retail customer service skills, blah blah blah. Seriously. Can't just say you're going to Dairy Queen, can you?