Its been a long time...

I fear I have once again been neglecting my personal blog.  After Mikey's ASD diagnosis, I planned to do some blogging about all the things that I was learning.  I can only say at the end of the day that this diagnosis has been a relief on so many fronts as it explains so many of the struggles that Mikey faces every day.  Although I had always leaned towards "autism techniques" I also know that I didn't go full-out and I wasn't always consistent.  With more consistency, life seems to be easier for him.

All the same, I have made a huge decision to move Mikey in to my classroom this fall. It was not an easy decision to make but middle school looming so closely in front of us put me in a place where I really had to decide what we wanted/needed to focus on for those years.  I will admit that I was also very overwhelmed thinking about Mikey trying to get around a large middle school.  Finally, I have concerns because of Mikey's limited abilities to transfer skills, that come with things being taught on too abstract of a level and although we could make those modifications to his progrma it just made more sense for him to be around other students who had the same modifications so that they could work togteher. So we are going to try this out and see how it goes.  I hope that I can get back to writing about all of this.

That is all for tonight.  I'm hoping to write more in the next day or two as Mikey and 11 celebrate our 11th Gotcha-day this week :).