Posted on January 25, 2009 by astallings
In the back of my mind I probably knew it would come to this, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Faced with some pretty grim options, my husband and I decided that I will, at least temporarily, homeschool our three sons.
I’m not one of those parents that feels supremely confident in my teaching ability [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2009 by astallings
On Tuesday, I visited our public middle school’s autism program. My son Robert was placed in “autism programs” (self-contained autism classrooms) from the time he was diagnosed in 2001 at age 4 until we moved to Vancouver, BC at age 9. While in Vancouver, he was mainstreamed in typical classrooms with a 1-1 special education [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2009 by astallings
Yesterday I had two IEP meetings for my sons in their new Florida school. I met the director of the autism program, a very impressive woman from Massachusetts who has a doctorate in exceptional education. She said all the right things about the school’s program – they have a speech therapist who visits each class [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2009 by astallings
My oldest son had one of the best kindergarten teachers in the world and she had a saying that encouraged the kids to use nice words when speaking to each other – to give ‘warm fuzzies’ instead of ‘cold pricklies’. It’s stuck with me all these years so I’ve decided to write about the things [...]
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