New School Journal – Prologue

How do you make a child with PDD-NOS, and XXYY Syndrome accept change? In my experience the answer is slowly. In September, Jacques will be attending a new school.  Not by my choice, but because we have been “rezoned”.  Matt and I decided before the kids were born, we wouldn’t move and disrupt their school.  [...]

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A source of endless frustration

Today I’m all upset, yet again, about IEPs and Special Education.  This time I will blame it on reading an article in the Toronto Star that pretty much claims that I am in the same boat as many other parents in Ontario. The fact is,  I am a math person, and all of this stuff (IEPs, special ed. [...]

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