Pipecleaner Dreams

Last week, Ashley came home from summer school with significant bruises on both her knees. One knee was swollen and needed ice applied. ...

Ashley can't hear you - she's deaf. No, she can't really see you either - she's blind. Yes, she always carries that sta...

(BTDTGTS = been there, done that, got the t-shirt) Ashley starts ESY services on Monday. Six weeks of going to school for 1/2 day, 4 day...

Why did Ronnie's school team feel like a hearing test was necessary? Any one of the team members could have stood behind him, yelled ...

I admit it - I am a reality show addict. My favorites are Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, Amazing Race and Survivor. ...

She's a middle school teacher. Before that she worked for our state's TTAC, the Department of Education Training and Technical Assi...

Finally, a decision was made yesterday. Ronnie will be coming back to our neighborhood school for the next school year. At the end of last ...

I'd gotten spoiled the last few years. All my IEP meetings were at the same school with the same school staff, and everyone understood ...

When Ashley was in elementary and middle school, I constantly had to prove her abilities. She was viewed as a child with many deficits rath...

The student is a 6th grader, and besides having autism, she had bruises on her arms and around her nose. Being non-verbal, the child couldn...

While my two oldest boys, Chip and Corey, were in high school, they had the same bus and same bus driver for all four years. The bus was on...

So, can someone tell me exactly what an "educational interpreter' is supposed to do? I think I heard somewhere that there are slig...

Just when I thought I only had one school bus battle to fight, another rears its ugly head. Now what, you ask? Well, for the last three day...

I wonder how many hours I've spent over the last 15 years working on school transportation issues for my kids? I'm sure it would be...

Ahh, high school. Those years when teachers and staff try to mold young minds for the challenges of the future. A time of showing the diff...

I'm thankful for many things during this holiday season - things both big and small. And, one of those things is that Ashley's morn...

I’ve written many times before about my worries for my children with significant disabiltiies as they move to adulthood. It seems that each...

Have you ever had this happen? If so, I would love to know how you handled it. IEPs are almost always held in the Spring in my school distr...

Apparently I ruffled some feathers last week with all my calls and emails about school bus schedules. On Friday, I got a call from the head...

It’s the end of the first week back at school, and for the three of my children still in the public school system, almost everything has gon...