To medicate or not to medicate. It is never an easy decision. It took us YEARS to cross the medication threshold with Ryan. Both Veronica and I felt that as long as he could attend in school, we did not want to medicate. A little over a year ago, we saw a child that was […]
Read more "At a Medication Crossroads"Ryan and reading haven’t always been the best match. He struggled to learn to read and struggled even more with reading comprehension. It wasn’t until we figured out that for him, recognizing the words on the page and understanding what they meant were two entirely separate processes, that we began to get him the appropriate […]
Read more "Diary of a Cool Kid"Navigating life with a child on the autism spectrum often requires leaving outings and events after the bare minimum time spent. You see your child struggling — with the noise, the crowd, the group activity, with anything that falls outside their routine — and you exercise your predetermined escape plan. Sunday, Ryan and I left […]
Read more "A Day With Gang Green"One thing I’ve learned in a decade of parenting a child on the autism spectrum: You learn to anticipate, but you still never know what will throw your child off kilter. And nothing is ever truly in the past. I guess that’s more than one thing, but you get the point. You do your best […]
Read more "Wrenches – Big and Small"Ryan is a little over one month into a school year that has included some big changes: a new school, new teachers, new aide, switching classes for every subject, lockers, and the bus. Time for an update on a few things in school, and in life. Ryan has adjusted remarkably well. As we do every […]
Read more "Life – A Progress Report"
Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 