I don't know how people come up with titles for daily blog entries. Maybe I'm just beating a dead horse.
Most people at school are in Thanksgiving weekend mode. I know I feel that mood teasing at my mind. Even so, I had a bunch of stuff to get done and I actually managed to accomplish some of it.
I put in a call to a mother whose child was in an short-term care facility (STCF). My purpose was three, maybe even four, fold. First, to find out how the student was; second to inform her that the STCF hadn't called me back and this was likely due to HIPAA and I would need a release to get them to talk to me; and third (okay, I guess it was three-fold) to discuss scheduling a re-evaluation planning meeting.
From my call, I found out that the student had just been discharged and was returning to school; that the mother was irate with the STCF; and that she was able to proceed with the re-evaluation planning meeting. So we worked out the details after a few calls with the out of district school and I wrote up the paperwork.
I finished writing my risk assessment from the other day. I also started another psychological report. In addition to this, I completed my assessment of the student from yesterday so I now have that one in the hopper.
Due to scheduling conflicts, I still didn't get to contact a Spanish speaking only parent since my potential translator was tied up with other stuff. In the afternoon, I did some paperwork stuff, which included faxing psych and ed reports to a neurologist that was seeing a student of my for an evaluation. In turn, the neurologist sent me a rating scale to give to teachers. I also sent out a letter, and the copies of my risk assessments to the proper administrators.
In the late afternoon, I helped a coworker deal with our IEP software...thinking about that program raises my blood pressure. Then I attended the staffing for a student that I evaluated and we found that the dear child still qualifies.
And so ended my day.
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