For any parent a child starting school is a big milestone, one that comes with lots of concerns and sometimes even stress. When you have a child with special needs that worry only doubles. I feel that we have been talking about Ethan starting school for a very long time. As soon as he was diagnosed […]
Whenever I’m asked about Ethan’s speech I always describe him as non-verbal. I think this is possibly because even though I know that we, thankfully, have been starting to acquire words, Ethan still couldn’t communicate with people outside of the family unit. Other people tell me that Ethan is pre-verbal as he does make sounds,
Ethan’s mother and baby swimming lessons ended before Christmas, we said that we would take him swimming as a family. This hasn’t really happened and I was worried that he would forget how to swim. He isn’t a fantastic swimmer but it has taken so long to get him where it is it would be
Dear Ethan, Today was a very big day for you, I’m sure you are aware, today you started school. We picked a very special school for you, I had to battle to get you your place and we really hope it was the right choice for you. This school doesn’t worry about pushing you to
It seemed ironic that World Autism Awareness day was on April the 2nd when the day before Ethan reached a very big milestone in his journey. On Wednesday the 1st of April we said goodbye to his nursery. When we signed Ethan up to his nursery we didn’t know that our world included Autism. Thankfully
