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Welcome to the Learning Gracie Blog. At age 3, Gracie was diagnosed with significant global development delay. Almost ten years on, Gracie still has limited communication and self-help skills and has now been diagnosed as having ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder).

This blog is about sharing our journey learning Gracie in 2012. This journey was never about fixing a "lack" or deficiency in Grace, rather it is about fixing a lack in OUR knowledge of how to best help Grace realise her potential. I also wanted this to be a place that whanau and friends could visit to keep tabs on Gracie's progress, ask questions and make comments...so please do!

Nga mihi
Kimai Huirama

Sunday, 6 November 2011

Enrolling at correspondence school

I called the correspondence school today and talked to the receptionist. We can enrol Grace online (21st Nov) and we will need to speak with special needs coordinators (Shirley jones and Sandra Stevens)about what a possible programme would look like; if I can access teacher AND teacher-aide hours and what the correspondence school would expect of us. We also need to contact GSE about getting an exemption under the Education Act 1989 (section 20) so we can enrol her. We've got prize giving tonight at school. It'll be a final farewell for year 13 students, which will be a bit sad because they're such a good bunch! Hopefully it will only take 2 hours - in the past it's gone on too long...oh well...roll on the holidays.
Posted by Kimai Huirama at 20:03

1 comment:

  1. Kimai Huirama7 November 2011 at 02:28

    Prizegiving was great - well done Chris and his crew! Took 2 h 20 m. Pretty good! Went fast. I especially enjoyed the music items - well done to our students who stood tonite.

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