Breydon’s class has been studying slugs and their lifecycles at school. They have a station in the room where the students the kids can watch what the slugs do, which as far as I can tell isn’t much. The playground is a slug magnet, so it’s a good use of something that is in plentiful [...]
Jude started kindergarten August 25. He was so proud before he headed out the door to the bus for the first time. He loves it.
He’s not ready.
Since school started Jude has been having numerous outbursts, crying fits, and has been experiencing challenges dealing with just about everything. Wrong color drinking glass? A tragedy to rival [...]
So now that we’re moved and trying to be settled, life is becoming more normal. And by normal, I mean that we have the usual amount of chaos without adding in the challenges of job hunting or moving cross-country. Instead, like families all over the US, our attention is turning to school.
First, there’s Scott who [...]
When we have spaghetti I usually strip Roegen down to his diaper. I find it much easier to wash him than to get red sauce out of his clothes. The other night he dropped some noodles onto his lap. Once the food was rescued he looked at me and said “my naked is dirty!”
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As you know, we’ve been waiting to find out where we’re moving, when we’re moving, and if we’re moving for quite a while now. We’ve endured despite flu, snow, chaos, and the overwhelming feeling that we’re caught up in events beyond our control. There have been more highs and lows during this process than my [...]
Recently I blogged about a situation taking place in Florida, where a kindergarten teacher had her class “vote” a child who is being tested for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) out of the class.
To date, the teacher – Ms. Wendy Portillo – appears to still believe that she did nothing wrong, although she has been reassigned [...]
On the Blog Thinking in Metaphors a story appears about a teacher who deliberately led her class in ostracizing a child who was being evaluated for being ASD. At the bottom of the article information appears on who can be written about allowing the teacher to continue working in a classroom.
I worry about Breydon being [...]
In my opinion the biggest challenge in dealing with a child with high-functioning autism is socialization. I worry a lot about how Breydon interacts with his peers and whether or not they will accept him, his fixations, and his quirky mannerisms. So far things have gone well – according to his teacher his [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about autism since the day the bottom dropped out of my world a few weeks ago. I even had a blog entry sort of outlined in my mind when the plague hit, and since then things have been so crazy that I haven’t had time to do much of [...]
My parents live in Wyoming. They moved there after I turned 21 and most of my family followed: my brothers, paternal grandparents, and my grandmother’s siblings all live there now. Because of distance and time constraints we don’t visit them as often as we would like – in fact, our upcoming trip will [...]
