2008

Climbing Up the IEP Goals Ladder – “What a Great Quarter!” Edition

December 17, 2008

We had our end-of-quarter Parent/Teacher Conference yesterday, and we all celebrated how great the J-Man is doing in school. Since IEPs are all about annual, specific, measurable goals, these four-times-yearly conferences with the teacher are about seeing how he’s meeting the measurements established by those goals. This allows you to make mid-course corrections as needed, [...]

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Parent-Teacher Conference

December 17, 2008

Didn’t those words strike fear into your heart as a kid? Even when you KNEW you had been pretty much perfect the entire year? And that you were already making straight As in everything? Yeah… it’s worse for the parent. Maybe especially for the parents of a special needs child. We knew how awesome the [...]

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Unwrapped!

December 15, 2008

Forgot to mention yesterday that J-Man gave us a great gift this weekend. This goes under the heading of ‘doesn’t sound like much to most of the world, but the rest of us understand how cool this is’. For the first time in pretty much ever, J-Man actually participated in unwrapping his gifts at our [...]

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Developing His Own Calming Strategies During Travel

December 14, 2008

We’ve returned home from another weekend trip that’s left us all pretty much exhausted. It was an action-packed weekend, and we don’t really do ‘action-packed’ very well. No point going into all those details, but I was impressed with the J-Man on several levels this weekend. One thing in particular was how he’s learned more [...]

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Think All Flash Cards Are Alike? Think Again! – A Review of Goosie Cards

December 11, 2008

To preview what Goosie Cards are, visit their web site at GoosieCards.com. As we’ve chronicled in recent posts (see “My God, He IS Reading!”, “Roy G. Biv”), our son is all about his flash cards lately. They’re not going to displace the Sacred Wooden Letter Blocks of Steadfast Security and Comfort anytime soon, but flash [...]

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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

December 10, 2008

I used a lot of climbing imagery in my “What if he never talks?” post a few days ago. For me it captures the often difficult and slow – but steady – progress we make as we try to climb upward that little bit at a time. And this young man goes out and shows [...]

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Getting Off My Own Routine

December 9, 2008

Last night I spent a couple of hours at our neighborhood’s more-or-less-annual HOA meeting. Because this public forum for complaining about things in the neighborhood only comes once a year, that’s a lot of griping and moaning to cram into two hours. Surprisingly, there seemed to be quite a bit less of that this year [...]

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Temporarily Gaining Back Some Ground in the War on Chaos

December 7, 2008

I think Mary located a brief window in time where the thought of cooking meat didn’t make her want to barf, so she ‘celebrated’ by cooking everything in the house. Thanks to between one and many gallons of spaghetti sauce, gumbo, chicken chili, and chicken and dumplings (yum!) and a giant freezer, we have enough [...]

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