News for the Special Education Community
by Stuart Chaifetz “Have a good day at school.” Such an innocent, innocuous phrase, yet last year when I said that to my son, Akian, when the school bus arrived in the morning, it sent him into a spiraling panic. I would later learn that his pained reaction was merely the exposed wick of the [...]
by Anahad O’Connor – Connie Anderson didn’t know what was bothering her 17-year-old son, a Baltimore-area high school senior with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. He was usually a diligent student, but his grades began to plummet. “He was starting to go downhill fast,” Ms. Anderson said. “His grades were crashing, and he wasn’t [...]
