Avris gets an IEP.

After Avris big seizure she just no longer could keep up with her schooling. She had remained in a regular school classes with outside help up until now. She was in the 4th grade at this point. The school performed a number of tests on her and decided that she had regressed so much that she needed to be placed in a life skills class. She ended up having to transfer to another school because the school she was attending did not have a class like the one she needed to be in. I remember walking into her classroom to meet the other kids and the teacher and doing everything I could not to break down and cry. She was no longer in a class with "normal kids" She was in a class with kids that had severe birth defects. I have to say that I love all these kids and the special spirits. I saw kids with helmets, downs syndrome, wheel chairs. I was introduced to them and half of them that tried to talk to me, I could not understand a word they were saying to me, they were drooling and in diapers. Like I said this is not a bad classification and I am not talking down on these kids, but this is the closest thing to Avri's mental ability now. Two weeks ago she was in a main stream school with fully functioning kids. This hit me so hard. I had taken so much pride in her beating all the odds that had been placed on her for so long. Some how we were moving back wards now and I had no control over it.
Although this was very hard for me to put my head around at first this has turned out to be the best thing we could have ever done for Avri. She was so much happier. I think she struggled before and that school for her was so hard but she is a trooper and plugged along no matter what. I began to see sides of her that she did not have before. I still struggle to this day in wanting her to be accepted with her peers and to be able to go to the movies and enjoy the things that kids her age enjoy. I could not be happier with the teachers and the aides that she has had. She has this second family that she goes to everyday and she loves it. When Avri is happy I am happy.