Today, Caleb was officially released from the Special Education Program.  He is age appropriate in all the standardized tests and ahead in some categories!  Early Intervention WORKS!!!  This is why I feel promoting early intervention and other resources is so critical.  GO here for early intervention resources in Utah.

This is wonderful, and it’s what we have been praying and working towards for years.  But it is TERRIFYING.  My little boy, who is age appropriate in testing, still has Autism.  We still have melt-downs and most certainly does not understand pragmatics (Social Interaction).  He’s told me that he’s worried that there will be big kids in Kindergarten who will be mean to him.  This next year I’m going to try and be in his class twice a week.

Hooray for Caleb and the progress he has made in the last 3 years!  He is going to do AMAZING things, I just know it.

Insert Post from Brian: And Caleb played NERF with the neighbor boys yesterday and didn’t come home crying!  I was so proud that I didn’t even mind having to go all the way around the block to all of our neighbor’s backyards to get the darts.

One Response to “Bitter-Sweet”