We're gearing up for a meeting with Ian's school district. It's a game of chess and all the pieces need to be in place.

Every year, we attend an IEP meeting with the school district. His teacher, therapists, a case manager from the school district and I sit around a table and discuss our goals for Ian for the year. We review what is essentially a legal contract that lists the goals and the amount of therapy that he'll receive for the next year. It has details about the amount of therapy time that he'll receive every week. Ian, for example, receives three sessions of speech therapy per week; the therapy sessions include other students.

Our next IEP is a big one. Every four years, a child must be tested in a variety of ways. We met back in August to discuss which tests would need to be done on Ian. He was tested for speech, IQ, educational levels, and audio-processing. He went through his first battery of tests back when he was four, so it will interesting to see how far he's progressed.

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