We Need Your IEP – Individualized Education Program Project

May 15, 2013 By
SCHOOL-EXECUTIVE-FUNCTIONING

We Need Your IEP! The Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association (CHASA) is gathering sample IEPs and other education plans from birth through college from parents of children with disabilities and we will share these on the CHASA website. We'd like to see IEPs for a child with any type of differences and are not limiting this to the groups we have traditionally served. Parents and school staff often find the development of a child's IEP to be rather challenging. It is our hope that by sharing sample IEPs, we will continue with the CHASA mission of improving the lives of children with hemiplegia or pediatric stroke. Send Your IEP to CHASA Contact CHASA and we'll send you instructions on how to send your child's IEP to us. We ask that you remove names, signatures, locations, and the school name from the IEP before you send the file to us. Sending as a pdf file is the preferred method. Please tell us the grade level of your child and the date (year) of the IEP. If you'd like to … [Read more...]

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Pediatric stroke, hemiplegic cerebral palsy, and Easter baskets

April 7, 2012 By
Katie

Kind of an unusual title, I know.  What's the connection between hemiplegic cerebral palsy, pediatric stroke, and Easter baskets? I'll paint the picture for you. Lots of kids in lots of places will be hunting Easter eggs this weekend.  Pretty dresses, pretty baskets, and great excitement while anticipating the hunt. It's easy, right? Spy the egg. Run to the egg. Pick up the egg with one hand. Put the egg in the basket that you're carrying with the other hand. Run to the next egg. Smile while mom or dad take photos and a video. Here's what happened to my daughter at her first Easter egg hunt.  Watch while all the kids run after the eggs. Slowly walk to an egg. Pick up the egg. Put it in the basket that I hung on her right arm - she can't hold it with her right hand - she's a stroke survivor.  Run to next egg. Fall down because she trips on a clod of dirt. Gets up. Egg gone. Walk to next egg - if there are any left because it's hard to run very fast when one of your legs is … [Read more...]

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Pediatric Stroke and Spelling Success

January 12, 2012 By

When Gregory entered kindergarten at age 5, he could barely write the letter “G” in his name.  It took the first two years of elementary school, intensive practice at home and school using a specialized writing curriculum, and hours of occupational therapy for him to consistently remember how to form the rest of the letters of the alphabet.  In first grade, when he finally took his first spelling test, he used a letter grid that allowed him to point to each letter/sound he heard in order to highlight his spelling skills without penalizing him for his writing challenges.  At that time he was 6 ½ years old and was spelling 2-3 words each week, ones such as “he” and “me,” “so” and “no.” Having survived a stroke at birth, followed a few months later by a rare but serious epilepsy syndrome, visual and cognitive tasks such as writing and spelling came extremely difficult to Gregory. Fast forward to the current school year and Gregory is an almost 11-year-old … [Read more...]

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