So far so good for Alec at school this year. He loves his teacher and she sounds like she is very patient and creative. I could be wrong, but I can tell she’s not jaded yet. She has lots of great ideas for the students to do. She has them involved in current events. Alec comes home bubbling with the cool things they’ve learned and done that day. I think this is his first teacher that is actually really comfortable with the internet as she gave them some url’s today for checking news and other items. His previous teacher’s were good teachers as well, but well, you know the drill, they’d been through it many times and their spark appeared to be gone. Although Alec’s teacher from last year inspired a lot of great reading for the kids with A Wrinkle In Time, Harry Potter and the Narnia series.

On the playground front, some mild teasing, but nothing major. In reality the teasing is still awful, but when comparing it to the previous years, it is getting better. Overall, Alec seems to be enjoying school.

We have to head to Saint John in a few weeks for another round of testing with Alec. This time they will be doing the ADOS test, a test that is used for testing for autism and related spectrum disorders. After nearly 2 years of waiting for all of this, I’m just relieved that the process is finally in motion. As Spinks mentioned on his blog, there’s a very strong need for more to be done for those with autism and related disorders in New Brunswick. It’s also very fortunate that Harold Doherty has been working so hard in NB for those with Autism.