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In Their Own Words – Getting From There to Here
My son, Justin, is a child with a medical and an educational diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome.
My wife and I have struggled to obtain educational services that would allow him to go onto higher learning and/or independent living to the fullest extent possible. An ongoing denial of a Free and Appropriate Public Education resulted in the public school paying for a private school placement for my son’s junior and senior years of high school.
We recently got my son’s high school transcript and his class ranking is #9 out of 424 seniors in the public high school that he is administratively enrolled in.
My son is a living reminder to parents of kids on the spectrum that you can get there from here.
This “In Their Own Words” is written by David B. Cockrell.
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