Angel’s Summer Begins

Posted by on Jun 28, 2012 in Blog | 5 comments Summer is finally here. YAY! Angel is in a 12-month school program, so this leaves us with a limited amount of time to plan fun activities for him. He gets one week off before summer school begins and another three weeks off before he starts kindergarten in the fall. Angel began his summer by visiting the Tisch Children’s Zoo, which is inside the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan. Warning: You need...
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Angel: The Preschool Graduate

Posted by on Jun 26, 2012 in Blog | 5 comments Last Friday marked the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Angel graduated from preschool and is on his way to kindergarten!!! Our decision to stop home-based early intervention (EI) and switch Angel to a center was based on the fact that Angel’s sessions stopped being very productive when he started focusing more on playing with his speech therapist’s hair and tickling...
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Getting it Together: Parents of Children with Special Needs

Posted by on Jun 22, 2012 in Blog | 3 comments If you are a special-needs parent, then you know that we are often inundated with piles of paperwork. Regardless of your child’s diagnosis, I am sure that you can relate. Sometimes it is a struggle for me to stay organized, so I asked other special-needs parents online to share how they keep everything together. (I have also included some of my personal strategies.) Paperwork Where should I...
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Single Parenting My Son With Autism Is A Village Affair

Posted by on Jun 19, 2012 in Blog | 6 comments (I am pleased to share this guest post with you by my good friend, NicksMommy, who is also a mom raising a son with autism. – Miz Kp) by NicksMommy Five and a half years ago,  something fabulous happened that changed me forever – I became a mom to a wonderful little bundle of joy – my little man, Nick.  He definitely stood out from the rest of the babies born that day, weighing in...
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NYC Special Education Reform Looks Good…On Paper

Posted by on Jun 15, 2012 in Blog | 7 comments We have come a long way since Brown v. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954. Fifty-eight years later, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) is rolling out a special education reform policy that seeks to integrate special education students into the general education classroom. As a parent of a child with autism, I would love for Angel to learn with his mainstream peers....
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