Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged Asperger's, children, family, grandchildren, neurotypical, normal, vacation on June 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My Seattle daughter is now my Pensacola daughter–or will be Sunday night when she arrives in Florida after spending four days with us, along with her three little ones, ages 7, 5 and 3. She made the trip cross country to see all the “grands” before they get settled into their new home.
It had been [...]
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Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged Asperger's, therapy, school, TSS, wraparound, Alex Barton, complaint, agency, medication, early intervention on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There aren’t too many occurrences that leave me speechless. Between a family law practice, seven kids and three husbands, I think I’ve about seen it all. However, tonight I received a response to a letter I wrote about a wraparound agency that was thoroughly incompetent, the first one our kids had. I wrote the [...]
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Posted in autism, life, parenthood, walkabout, tagged Asperger's, autistic, blue ribbon, IEP, inclusion, managed care, school, therapy, wraparound on May 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I managed this week to conduct not only the “transition to junior high” IEP for Captain Oblivious, but also the first negotiating session with the new managed health care people. Let me say, either meeting was seriously worth several glasses of wine and maybe a Valium.
The IEP meant meeting the responsible people at the junior [...]
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Posted in autism, humor, life, parenthood, walkabout, writing, tagged Asperger's, autistic, blog, carnival, Dessert, kilroy, soup to nuts, spectrum, writing on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
While some may use a blog as a place to just spew all that awful emotional crap that you don’t feel your loved ones deserve to enjoy, most of us hope that our blog will be read by others, and the more “others” the better. This is one of the reasons to engage in the [...]
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