My Nonprofit Reviews

I just learned about this group today and thought I would share a story about my 8 year old grandson that has ASD. When he was 3 we knew he was different and so did the school he was going to, they called the board down to review him for 2 weeks and put him on an IEP, then we decided to move to a school district that could deal with special needs children. In this district he was shuffled from school to school, never having a school to call his own, so we decided to send him to a school for ADHD children, they just let him do what ever he wanted, so at this point we decided to change doctors , it was at this point the suggested we have him tested for ASD, the school he was attending also tested him. Both the Doctors and the school both came back with the same opinion, he is autistic. That explained a lot of issues we were having with him. He is now in a school only for ASD children, although he is still only doing 1st grade work they feel by next year he should be where he needs to be. Before this we jumped through hoops taking him to therapy every week, speech therapy, ot, you name it we probably did it for him. It has been a difficult struggle for my daughter and son-in-law since they have 3 other children now a 2 year old son and a set of 1 year old twin boys. We all live together which takes a little bit of the load off her. But she is now dealing with early childhood specialists for speech for the 2 year old and one of the twins. These two have their hands full every day, the private school Drake the 8 year old with ASD has to be taken to and from school every day, this puts a strain on their finances. But with everything that is going on in the family they wouldn't change a thing about any of their children. They always say God wouldn't of given us more than we can handle. So if you think your alone out their your not, and these are the most special children in the world.