Update: iPad permission success!

The AT team has agreed to a trial with the iPad! :) I'm so very, very excited! I hope this works out as well for Caitlyn as I think it will, and am really looking forward to using some of the apps I've been checking out!

Our first family counseling meeting of the year

Did not go very well. Caitlyn was not having a good day and spent most of the session spinning around in her chair, crawling under the conference table, or playing with various items in the room. She did not want to participate in the discussion at all. I hope that next week she will open up some more.

DS (Dear son) was pretty honest about how he is feeling about things. He is jealous of the time my husband and I have to spend on her, especially daily with homework and hygeine. This really brings home to me that we desperately need a reduction in homework accomodation, because we should be spending more time with DS or doing family things.

This year is a new counselor for us and we only get 6 sessions, so I'm not sure what to expect this time around. Next week will also start some new parent class offerings following counseling, and we're going to do a trial of putting DS and Caitlyn in the middle school youth group instead of elementary based on the Spec Ed center's recommendation (they have quite a few 6th and 7th graders show up for the later class, versus the current class being mostly k-2nd and so not "peer" for Caitlyn to have social training with). I hope it goes well.

Turned down on the iPad

Very discouraged right now that the AT Team has turned down our request to use an iPad for Caitlyn instead of the Alphasmart. I have written back and urged them to reconsider in light of her full disability needs, including behavior, rather than simply denying it based on that the Alphasmart will do word processing.