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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Living with CP: the early years part 35.

Hello everyone.  I hope you all are having a wonderful day today.  I'm going to talk about the first time I took the proficiency test after my IEP (Individualized Education Program). 

As I said in my last entry, when we had my meeting that day everyone thought we were crazy for wanting me to take that test except Bill Foreman. The bad thing was usually when you took that test, they put everyone in the library.  With me having cerebral palsy, I could not write so I had to have someone write for me.  That meant I had to talk to that person. The first day we started out in the library but after about 10 minutes we went back to the classroom because my aide could not hear me. 

Since I have cerebral palsy I could have as long as I needed to take each part of the test.  When you have cerebral palsy you think much better when you are in a room alone.  So when we went back to the classroom, they decided to put all the kids in one room and me and the aide in the other taking the test. 

There were five parts to the test that included reading, writing, math, science and english.  Everyday for a week I took a different part and one of the teachers was not very happy because she could not do what she wanted on the days I was in her classroom taking the test because of how long it took me to take the test.  But, she could not say anything. 

The first time I took the test, I passed three of the five parts.  When you have cerebral palsy do not let anyone tell you that you can not do something.  I did pass all five parts. 

Have a great day everyone.  

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