Services for preschool/kindergarten aged children with multiple disabilties (Ellicott City: obgyn, home)

[r2dc]

Does anyone have information about services for preschool/kindergarten aged children with multiple disabilities in Howard County, MD? Our three year old has physical and cognitive delays and we are considering moving back to MD. We lived in Montgomery County when he was first born and were happy with early intervention services at the time and then moved out of state. We are considering returning to Maryland but would most likely need to be in Howard County for commuting purposes. I am interested in finding out about preschool programs for children with multiple disabilities. How do they compare to services in Montgomery county?

[carroll4628]

I do not know about services in Montgomory County, but I belive HoCo services are wonderful. We had 3 neighbors in Ellicott City with varying levels of disabilities and ages (pre-K through HS). For preschool, HoCo opperates a RECC (Regional Early Childhood Center) program at the elementary school and busing is provided (an aide rides the bus with the children). The IEP students attend the whole school day, while the "peers" attend for the morning and lunch 9-1. If the program at the local elementary doesn't meet your needs, your child will be placed in another school. We had kids bused in from varying distances. So, during my 2 year experience: for 2/3-yr olds, there were 4 IEP children, 5 peers, 3 teachers (a lead and 2 aides), a PT, and OT, and a speech pathologist. For 4-yr olds, we had 6 IEP children, 5 peers, 3 different teachers and the same PT, OT, and Speech teacher. Most of the peers continue on in the elementary school and I think it helps the IEP children entering Kindergarten as they're already familiar with the school, caffeteria, gym, outside playground, etc. We took field trips like any other pre-school - the farm, the Maryland Science center, zoo, etc. We just had more parents and teachers than typical (2:1 parents/teachers to students). I could not tell you the specific disabilities, but we had asbergers, austism, cerebral palsy. Both of the lead teachers used sign language. One little girl was mostly in a wheel chair, but learning to walk with crutches - she could hear, but not speak. BTW - two of the neighbors are doctors (OBGYN and a Cardiologist) and one is a cybersecurity specialist at Ft. Meade. (I believe they did their research as the army wife told me this was the best place she'd been to - her 5yr old daughter also had surgery at John Hopkins by Dr. Carson so she's a little biased now.) I would contact HCPSS as there is also the Cedar Lane School for children with severe to profound disabilities. Howard County Public School System I had 3-yr old triplets in my sunday school class that attended Cedar Lane School. Two of the children were moving to the RECC program when they turned 4 (their behavior was similar to the children in my daughter's class) and the other child (more severe physical disabilities) will stay at Cedar Lane.

[r2dc]

Thanks for the info. That sounds great. Are there children who require nurses to be with them at school? Our son has seizures and here in Pennsylvania he attends preschool with a nurse.

[carroll4628]

We did not have children/nurses any at our school, so you would definitely need to contact the county. We did have students who had their own teaching aide.

[r2dc]

Ok thank you. I will contact the county. Does the specific area within Howard County matter in terms of getting good services?

[Medhat]

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[SIZE=3]Child Muaawih ... Semi «dead»

Muaawih spends most of his day lying on the bed.
Among the few with a hand and impeding the liver, heart confronts Abu Muawiya life alone. Dominated by grief, and weary frequent revisions, and after years of bitter found that the health situation for his son more than worse day after day, and here almost falls victim to despair, but for the full faith in God Almighty. Experienced the tragedy of Abu Mu'awiya after the methods of the doors seeking treatment for his son, who lost his right to life as any normal child, after weary of disability over the past seven.

Abu Muawiya said: «My son is seven years old, is still bedridden and wheelchair-bound prisoner, he is paralyzed and brain injury in the brain during the prenatal stage, led indirectly to an excess of Albblairoyen infection in the blood».

It is no secret Abu Muawiya that financial circumstances have contributed indirectly to the lack of improvement in the case of health of his son: «Put the material very bad does not allow me to cause serious injury centers, rehabilitation or even subjected to any treatment, what made me indifferent, I can not offer him the most basic necessities of life that make it exercises his life like any normal child », explaining that the report issued by the Disabled Children's Association confirmed that Sid can not sit or balance of the coup or crawling on his stomach, and feet they can not bear the weight of his body.

Regarding the role of Disabled Children's Association in the treatment of his son, revealed Abu Muawiya that the Assembly has spared no effort in helping Sid, «gave him about five sessions of guidance and tips, as well as a program for training home to improve the control of the movement of the head and body, as they did to help him change the status of his body and encouraged to touch the parts of his body and touch the Games, in addition to his training to bear the weight of his body on the feet ».

He continues: «was the beginning stages of treatment of Sid in the development, but deteriorated after the end of the program of the Assembly, and that was in 2005, and after about a year recommended that the city of Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian Services accession of the child to the Early Intervention Program, and the assessment of the child from processor speech and language processing capacity functional mobility of the mouth and swallowing, in addition to calendar and address of specialist physiotherapists and occupational therapists, and evaluate in order to describe the appropriate hardware for the child, and despite these attempts, but the vast amount of medical reports and years-old the seven had not accompanied him in private centers that require a lot of money.

<Bemoaning Abu Mu'awiya on his son: «Sid Today, bedridden and wheelchair-bound prisoner, after he lost his right to treatment and became disabled without an identity, even a disabled card did not get it».

And wishes the father frustrating hospitals specialized and well-wishers to help him in improving the status of his son, and work quickly to rectify his position, and «I feel sorrow and sadness when they see him and showed him unable to do the simplest movement could help him, and God knows that I and his mother live in a situation miserable because of it, in addition to what we suffer from conditions material not only knows the God ».
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Riyadh
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E-mail. Medhad1963@gmail.com.
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[Medhat]

Child Muaawih ... Semi «dead»

Muaawih spends most of his day lying on the bed.
Among the few with a hand and impeding the liver, heart confronts Abu Muawiya life alone. Dominated by grief, and weary frequent revisions, and after years of bitter found that the health situation for his son more than worse day after day, and here almost falls victim to despair, but for the full faith in God Almighty. Experienced the tragedy of Abu Mu'awiya after the methods of the doors seeking treatment for his son, who lost his right to life as any normal child, after weary of disability over the past seven.



Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Riyadh


ALRAJHI BANK
IBAN
SA28 8000 0289 6080 1014 5441

PO Box 3176
Riyadh 11471


Medhat Abdel-Majid Mohammed Qenawi

E-mail. Medhad1963@gmail.com
Telephone number of the father / 00966502416696

My son needs a charity center where I do not have the money to treat my circumstances and the material very difficult and I am living in Saudi Arabia since the fifteen year