Today is Anna’s 10th birthday!!! Happy Birthday, Booski!!! This last year has brought Anna more stability and health than she’s ever had. She is five months shy of a two-year anniversary from her last seizure! She changed medications from Risperdal to Abilify which halted the early on-set puberty that started plaguing her at age 8....
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The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is a fun-filled community fundraiser to support our local Best Buddies programs of inclusion. Their friendship, integrated employment, and leadership programs educate people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities to be advocates for social inclusion in our communities. This Saturday, the 2011 Best Buddies Friendship Walk takes place in...
Next week brings Anna’s annual ARD meeting. For the uninitiated, this is a meeting that takes place once a year whereupon a vast team of people get together and decide what goals your special needs/special education child should work on for the following year. It can be a daunting, humbling, scary, and overwhelming meeting, especially...
It has been a long time since I’ve written a Thoughtful Thursday post and quite a while since I’ve blogged about Anna. The thing is… she’s doing well right now. I say that with a whisper in my voice and hesitation in my heart because with her, things change rapidly and dramatically. It’s easy to...
When we first entered the FAC room yesterday morning, I noticed the overhead florescent lights were covered with blue parachute material creating a soft, blue glow. Four boys and Caroline were around a table, listening to music and playing with instruments. Mrs. M_ came over and shook our hands. Curtis and I met the aides,...
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