Happy Anniversary to language! A year ago, my 5 year old (soon to turn 6) became verbal! It’s been a year since we’ve seen a huge jump in language and speech. I remember the days of one sound/syllable and so much quiet time from him. I remember the blank looks on his face and the…
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Getting Approval… Medical Grant for Autism Services
I wanted to come back to this post about our Medical Grant from United Healthcare Children’s Foundation. I started the grant search process almost a year ago. We applied and were approved in September of 2016 and had a year to spend the $2,000. We didn’t need long to spend the money but it…
WHY is getting Medicaid so…
unfortunately difficult?! BIG NEWS! My son is now in the Medicaid Children’s Medical Services program of Florida Kid Care. (I’m not even sure if this is the correct way to describe it). This process was very confusing and lengthy. There seem to be so many different parts or subgroups within the Medicaid program itself. Just…
a reflection: alone with autism
Happy New Year! I was happy to celebrate at my Noon Years Eve party this year to bring in the 2017 year. Looking back over the holidays and years I’m happy to be in this place. I didn’t know how I would make it many days; even after the third day of winter break this…
It’s working!!!!
So, I am proud to say that “IT”S WORKING!!!” It’s been a long 4-5 months but the changes that have been put into place are working! School, private speech, private OT, social skills class and home are all on the same page. Every adult that assists Max has commented in the last 6 days how…
Ruthfulness 