Alex is entering 6th grade in the fall, and he will go to a new school.
It’s been six years since we toured special-needs schools. Back then, as Jill points out, we were looking for a kindergarten, and kindergarten classrooms for the autistic don’t differ much from kindergarten classrooms for the typically developing.

So this will be new. First stop was the school of Ron’s, Alex’s old terrific EI special-educator who’s now unit teacher of a special-needs site in a New York City public school.
I got to the meeting before Jill this morning; I rounded a corner and there Ron was. “There …read more