A Love Letter to Anna Author’s note: This originally ran on May 18, 2015. But I’ve noticed that prom season is upon us again, and thought I’d dig it out and dust it off. It’s a favorite of mine for so many reasons. My dear Anna, I remember when I was asked to the senior prom. […]
It dawned on me the other day that I’ve been a lot of things and done a lot of things for my son in his 20 years of life, but what shook me to my core was the realization that I was, I am my son’s pusher. Unyieldingly, I pushed, pushed, pushed—always expecting more. Throughout […]
It’s a good practice to enter each IEP meeting with a typed page of your Parent Concerns. If any of the listed items can become part of the formal IEP, that’s excellent. For those that cannot, at least you’ve made them part of the official record that is filed.
