
We had Julia’s last IEP meeting yesterday. She will leave the school system in January when she turns 22. The participants included transition specialists from DDS and MRC, both agencies will loom large in Julia’s future. Her inclusion facilitator conducted the meeting. Two aides, the speech therapist, Julia’s out of school therapist were also there.
Julia presented a power point about where she is and where she wants to go. She has done this for a few years and this one was the best. She likes working at the library, she wants to work more, she wants to live with room mates, she wants to take care of her nephew who is not yet born. She has gotten better at cooking and she is interested in making money. I am leaving a few things out that I’ve forgotten. Each slide was pretty appropriately illustrated with anime pictures that she copied.