This morning I attended a transition meeting at Jude’s new school. I love calling it his new school, makes it feel so official! My emotions were running away with me a bit; I think the combination of relief that my fight is over, excitement at being part of something amazing and dread of […]
You guys! Just a little thank you video for you all…
Today, I took the children (and Granny!) up to see Jude’s new school so we could work out if we need to buy anything special for his room. It’s so amazing what they provide, I really can’t believe how fantastic they have been so far and he’s not even a pupil yet. To say Jude […]
Jude (yesterday) in his funky new onesie! Thank you so much to everyone who has messaged me about yesterdays meeting. Here is a video of me explaining what happened and where we go from here. Exhausting, isn’t it?!
The following was written by a good friend of mine called Jenni who blogs at Chilling with Lucas She has experience of working with learning disabled children and adults so knows what she’s talking about in terms of this subject. Over to Jenni… Supporting someone with autism can be incredibly challenging but finding routines that work […]
So today and yesterday I visited the two potential schools for Jude and I was totally blown away. They are so so lovely. The amount of outside space in both, the friendliness of the staff, the relaxed attitude to life in general all follows the needs of Jude. I have a preference to one […]
I’m sorry for the delay in updating you all following our third Professionals meeting on Friday. By way of reminder…our case went back to panel last Monday and it was a multi-agency panel again meaning representatives from both social care and education were present. The reason for this was because of our desire for […]
My SEN Officer rang on Thursday to tell me something astonishing. It’s astonishing because we seem to have reached a place within this journey/matrix/adventure/life lesson/massive dichotomous mess *pick as you please* where things are starting to occur without me having to prod them along. It appears I no longer require my beating stick at every […]
I’ve been working on something fab for a while now but wanted to show you in advance before it properly comes to a head in August… I wrote a book! It’s not a long book, more like a tester, a waving hand at the world in an attempt to show people that […]
Panel Result: I have just heard that the Social Care department of our council are not willing to fund Jude’s residential place at the moment as they seem to think that four hours a week support is working pretty fine for us all. Even going to panel they didn’t put forward a request for a […]