Today our little piece of the Internet turns two years old! I can’t believe how quickly this past year has flown by and how much has changed in that short space of time. This year has been one big roller coaster ride for our little family. We have had some very good highs but it …
I haven’t blogged about speech therapy for quite a while but to be honest that is because we haven’t had many, if any, appointments. Ethan’s speech therapist came back from her maternity leave and we got to see her a few times to prepare for Ethan’s statement reports. She then left her position at the …
In February I wrote about the Proposed Statement that Ethan had been issued with. How I wasn’t 100% happy with it, and how I had written a nine page letter expressing my concerns and the school I would like Ethan to attend. The council informed me they had received my letter and they had given me …
With the diagnosis of autism came the realisation that Ethan’s journey through the education system would be different from his peers. The luxury of making sure you are happy with your local school, hopefully getting the place you want, and then sending your child there for the first time in September, with the biggest worry …
I can’t believe that it was only this time last year that we received Ethan’s autism diagnosis, it feels like autism has been in our world for a lot longer than that. I honestly felt that I was going to have to fight the paediatrician for an autism diagnosis and I walked into the office …
