First day of school. Sophomore year. So many ‘first days’…one might think we are good at these days. By now, we are so good at these first days. Anxiety only that a mom could sense. I had her 3×5 cards ready one with a list of ok conversation topics for school and one with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘school’
really
Posted in autism, tagged autism, developmental disability, kids, life, school on August, 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
confused
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advocacy, autism, disability, IDEA, IEP rights, pdd-nos, rights, school on January, 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How does a child in a special education program with multiple disabilites fail a special education class? According to the teacher she turned in all her assignments and participated daily.hmmmm…….. I am confused. Outraged would be a better term. The teacher kindly “bumped her up to a ‘D’ for effort”. This story is not over. Not even [...]
a different perspective
Posted in autism, disability, Uncategorized, tagged advocating, autism, disability, pdd-nos, school on December, 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am trying to have a different perspective on the fairness issue and hear the other side. I really am. I want my girl on the team to be part of something, on a social level. She doesn’t have to play in the games. She isn’t going to take anything away from the other girls. [...]
what is that sound???
Posted in autism, family, kids, life, reflections, tagged autism, coping, kids, life, school, self calming strategies, singing, teenagers on October, 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One day I was returning from a walk and I heard this wailing, moaning, bellowing coming from the side of my house. What is that sound?? I could hear it from all the way across the street? My gosh, the neighbors have to hear that too?? As I got closer, I realized that it was my [...]
anxiety UP, and down
Posted in autism, family, kids, life, reflections, tagged anxiety, autism, daughters, school, success on September, 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The last week or so has been a bit challenging with my girls anxiety rearing its ugly head again. She was back to refusing to talk, arms crossed, I got some non-verbal gestures/nods to my questions, but that is about it. Until today. Today was the breakthrough in her recent anxiety. I had to do some investigating but today [...]
senior this, senior that
Posted in family, kids, life, tagged high school senior, kids, school, teenagers on September, 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t remember my senior year of high school being so full of “senior” activities. Maybe I was just a real nerd or it could have been that I was planning my wedding!! (that is whole blog post in itself for another day) Senior meetings, senior walk, senior pictures, senior college info night, senior tributes, senior brags, [...]
Can this really still happen??
Posted in autism, life, Uncategorized, tagged autism, disability, outrage, parenting, school on August, 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
School started this week. In an elementary classoom there were some parents chatting as the students settled in. It was in this classroom, my co-worker overheard a parent say to another parent something in the way of, “ohhh, so it looks like ‘those’ students will be in here too.” ‘Those’ students would be the ones impacted by [...]
A first for my girl
Posted in autism, family, kids, reflections, Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, autism, autism spectrum, daughters, disability, growth, pdd-nos, school on August, 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
As a mother of a child with a disability, the start of a school year brings an additional element to the anxiety realm. All the ‘what if’s’, the ‘will she know where to go?’, the ‘will they understand her needs?’, etc.. And then there is the torture of the first day of school panic that [...]
