Tag:special ed
Big Kid Back to School = Starting Over
This year we started middle school (and high school) and it’s a whole new ball game. I’ve been going to back to school teacher conferences for years, and I can’t remember the last time that one of them scared me. This year I was terrified. As I drove to the middle school, my stomach was …
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Lifting my Gag Order, or Last Year was a Travesty
This is another post that I wrote at the very beginning of the summer. I have edited it significantly for chronological context and ease of reading, but I want my readers to know that my mindset at the time of actually writing this post was months ago. Last year wasn’t a good year. That’s not …
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Advocacy is a Skill
I suppose I already knew it. I have a couple of friends who advocate professionally (which is amazing, all by itself!) It just didn’t hit home until I found myself in a position where I needed to advocate for the “other one” and I already knew what I was doing. I was grateful for the …
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Back to School: The Coaches Meeting
This is one of the biggest steps in preparing to go back to school. It’s something that I agonize over when it begins to consume my mind weeks before it actually happens. It’s time to meet the teacher. Last year the bar was raised to the moon. Realistically, I know that we will never have …
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Special Ed, Occupational Therapy, and IEP Woes
I know this is a hot button topic for a lot of people. Usually our story doesn’t look like most of the others you hear or read about. We’ve had a pretty good experience overall with the special ed process. Except for one part—occupational therapy. Yoshi went into school with an educational diagnosis of autism …
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