Middle school ESY for Autistic Students What is ESY? ESY stands for Extended School Year, which you can think of as “summer school.” For our…
An Autistic Child Loses a Teacher Mid-Term Losing a teacher mid-term My child with autism is mainstreamed into a “regular” classroom. Always has been. During…
Transitioning to a new aide – Part Three In my last two blogs, I discussed my son’s new aide and how we helped with the…
Transitioning to a New Autism Aide – Part two A new school aide In my last blog, I discussed my sonʼs longtime aide and how…
Revisiting an Old IEP Conversation An Update on the IEP Procedure This blog is a follow-up to an earlier blog (from this year) that discussed…
Sixth Grade for an Autistic Student The beginning of the end of elementary school My child just started sixth grade. Our elementary school is kindergarten…
More Schools and Outside Agencies In my last blog, I discussed how I took my son to an outside agency (by “outside“ I mean one…