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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also agree with first PP.  It is really important to give your child a lot of opportunities to experience the environment before they get there.  One big thing in MS (and not sure if this is still the case because I have not had a kid in MS since Covid), was learning to use their locks and remembering the combination.  Lots of kids struggle with learning to use them.  One year, I spent about an hour at one of those summer MS orientations teaching kids to open the locks.

We also got the schedules in advance and the school set up a meeting each year during the first week of school for me and all of his teachers.  It was done really early in the morning and was kind of a get to know him, sharing type meeting.

One of the things that we did was at the last IEP, the MS IEP coordinator (can’t remember the title, but still run into her occasionally) came to the meeting.  It was really helpful, but probably mostly for my personal stress level and to give my son a friendly face when he got to MS, because I think the school would have been fine without it.

Another thing we did was that a few days before school started, I sat down with my son to discuss things that he might find difficult in the transition and then I asked him to come up with accommodations.  It was highly successful and such a turning point from me being responsible for figuring things out to him taking on that role, with assistance, of course.  One of the things he did was to make a checklist that he taped inside his binder to remind him of the things he needed to do when he got to class and when he was leaving class.  We also discussed identifying a place for everything and that everything needed to go in its place so that things would not be left behind.  And, about two months in, we had to get a new binder and backpack because the ones we got originally were not working for “his” organizational system = he identified the problems and then found ones that he felt would work.  These are examples of what made my son successful and are based on his needs at the time.  But, I am sharing to give you ideas.  [/quote]I love all of this. Can you give us ideas of what was on the checklists? Thank u. [/quote]

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