March 1, 2011

How did the IEP meeting go?

For more than a month now, I’ve been opening my word processor and staring at the blankness trying to figure out how to put down my thoughts about Chipmunk’s IEP meeting. Every time, I end up squirreling over to something else. You know, a YouTube video or Twitter or basically anything other than talking [...]

January 17, 2011

5000 Points

Last time we hit Chuck E Cheese with the Chipmunk, it didn’t go badly exactly. But it wasn’t awesome either. It was a couple of years ago, so he was really too small to do anything. The playground scared him and most of the little moving kiddie rides scared him, and he was too [...]

November 8, 2010

Ready, Set, Go

On Friday I hit a finish line. Or a starting line.

The fifth, sixth (I’ve lost count) doctor we’ve seen (this time at the amazing place we’ve been going for cognitive behavior therapy) gave my son a diagnosis on the autism spectrum.

She spent an hour going through paperwork from a handful of evaluations [...]