Special Education Services

I had a meeting this week with the Special Education teachers to review the results from the occupational therapy (OT) evaluation that was given to Trey over the past few week's. I was so proud to hear that Trey does not need OT services at this time. Trey was tested in a one on one setting with the therapist and was also observed in multiple classroom settings. His scores on the two tests (Berry Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales) were age appropriate. The concerns I had about Trey at home don't seem to be issues for Trey at school, hummm...imagine that. I questioned all the tests and the results knowing that Trey can't or at least as I'm coming to find out "acts" like he cant accomplish at home. According to the therapist and her observations, Trey CAN and does most everything that was asked of him at an "on grade level" level. I expressed that Trey's disorder is progressive so that the school would make a note that whenever I felt (or if they observed) Trey falling behind in his OT skills that at anytime we could revisit this section of Trey's services.
I noticed from the very beginning of Trey diagnosis that there was a marked difference in Trey's hands compared with every other MPS IVA child I had seen in pictures. 100% of all the other MPS IVA children have long, skinny fingers and narrow hands. However, Trey's are short, small and even have a slight "clawing" to them, meaning he doesn't have the ability to fully extended his fingers. Because of this difference I had always thought Trey would need and absolutely qualify for OT...to my surprise and excitement, this doesn't seem to be the issue at this time.