I love that my kid loves his character shirts. You wanna know? It’s because they show you immediately who he is and what he likes. It’s like a welcome mat into his mind. You see, just from this picture I can see that he loves LEGO bricks, and that smile shows me he’s happy (or …
I’m thrilled! THRILLED! I can’t believe school started a month ago. It’s been a pretty easy transition. Brenden has done really well going from walking to and from school everyday to riding the bus. He’s made new friends, learned new teacher names, has a schedule and his own locker. I have no complaints. Which is …
Gosh, it was so foggy on the first day of school! So here we are, another school year but this time we’re at a new school AND riding the bus! He has to wake up early because now he leaves a little after 7 – last year we didn’t leave until 8:15. So far, …
He turned 8 in May. That means 7 years ago, inside the pediatrician’s exam room, we answered “no” to all of the common development and milestone questions. You know the ones, “Is he crawling? Is he walking? What words can he say? Is he pointing at things? Is he sitting up?”. We answered no …
Do ya’ll remember the whole speech therapist/dentist issue we had this past school year? Well I revoked that IEP entirely (since speech delay was the eligibility category, it was basically “revoke speech, revoke it all”. After that was done and signed, I requested a new initial IEP, which involved all of the evaluations plus specific …
I’ve had a few days to process everything (and I’ve also just been too busy to write up an update!), but here it is. I’m not going to dive into too many details, but the IEP team was there and it was explained to me that if I revoked consent for the speech services, that is …