Fearless Folks … autism and beyond …

Meghan just came home with a “Perfect Week Award”—this is number 2—so we are making good progress!!  At school she’s been better at using her communication device and books, along with some easy sign language, to let her teachers know when she’s upset about something—before she goes over the edge!  If she is upset, the [...]

Happy Holidays Everyone!!

From SPEDWatch (for those in Massachusetts):
 
SPEDWatch is offering three Special Education Rights Workshops! Click here for the brochure http://www.spedwatch.org/files/Workshops_Brochure.pdf
 
Your Special Education Rights
A general overview of the special education process and the laws that govern that process. All Massachusetts school districts are required to provide, in cooperation with their Special Education Parent Advisory Council, an annual [...]

If IEP meetings = martini lunches …
 
Then I’ll be having one this very afternoon!!
 
In fact, I think it should be a new law… IEP morning meeting hell, with afternoon martini of your choice!!  Yup!  And it should be called the “IEP Martini” and they should be FREE, of course, and the bartenders should comfort you and [...]

The last time I visited my blog was to twitter that I was going off to Chatham, MA to visit the sharks (sharks spotted off Chatham’s coast).  And then—da-dunt, da-dunt, da-dunt—my mysterious week-long absence from this blog.
 
So just to clarify, I was not eaten by a shark! 
 
Nick wasn’t eaten by a shark, either.
 
The only explanation I [...]

“I don’t envy you.”
 
Was what came out of the mouth of a twenty something year old, and who happened to be one of Meghan’s at-home helpers a few years ago (and trained by an autism behavioral specialist).  I just looked at her and smirked.  I mean what do you say to a remark like that?
 
Or [...]