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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

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Still trying to enrol!

Been a while since I've posted...what with school coming to an end and xmas fast approaching. I am still desperately trying to get Grace enrolled at Correspondence school before the end of the year. I need to contact Cameron at the Hamilton Ministry of Education office at end of next week to see if she qualifies under the "non-enrolled" gateway. This basically means that because Ngaruawahia High is the nearest high school but they don't have the facilities or personnel to cater for her needs (so are unable to enrol her for 2012), Grace should qualify. But...as usual...still a lot of red tape to get through. I'm also looking for potential teacher-aides to help out with her learning programme. Well...hope everyone's christmas shopping is going better than mine. 24 days to go and zero presents bought! Can anyone beat that?
Posted by Kimai Huirama at 00:56

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 December 2011 at 00:13

    Well, all I can say is if anyone has the tenacity to persist, you do lol...yes I am finally following your blog...Carey

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  2. Kimai Huirama3 April 2012 at 08:21

    Well whanau...all I can say is that getting Grace on Correspondence was in the "too-hard basket". In the end, I think it was for the best because I'm pretty sure that Grace would have missed the interactions she gets with school mates and staff. I also have my sanity at the the end of Term One 2012 and am able to give more quality time outside of school. For all of those who are pursuing Correspondence for similar reasons in the NZ system...Good Luck, you'll need it!

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