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Red Ribbon Week and Halloween all in one ❤️😝 Lots of fun and busy busy

Week 9 of 43

1. Helping our OT move to her new office
2. Filing by letter
3. Red Ribbon week dress up days ❤️
4. Checklist at one of our work sites
5. Got caught in the rain ☔️
6. Dirt cups 🐛
7. Rainbow spotting 🌈
8. Long long overdue hair day
9. Our little cow 🐮
10. Family pumpkins ☀️
11. Family pumpkins 🌙

Fun week of October things! A full week of school included CPI training and community outings. We have a job at a local Gallery that provides classes to individuals with disabilities and back to our elementary school job! Had some fun family time thrown in there as well 🥰🥰

Week 8 out of 43

1. Making deliveries at one of our work sites
2. List of office skills to be worked on 🖊️
3. CPI deescalation training
4. Art gallery 🎨
5. Yoga studio at the art gallery
6. Pumpkin patch 🎃
7. Surprise party for family

A big win this week was starting our new job at one of our elementary schools. Students helped sort and deliver materials for the firefighters visit. They did awesome! 👏🏻😄 It was an emotional week personally so taking things one day at a time. Finding peace when I can and thankful for my support system.

Week 6 of 43

1. New job delivering materials to students
2. Rainbow binders for pre-voc data
3. Fall decor starting to go up 🍁
4. Organization for our cabinets
5. Suitcases ready for family departures ✈️
6. Peace at the beach
7. The moon and sunset 🌕

This week we had a 4-day work week and lots of business to do. An emotional one personally and busy week professionally = less photos 🙃 We try again next week

Week 5 of 43

1. We kicked off our recycling program again. ♻️ Students will collect recycled bottles and cans around the school and we will recycle them on Fridays at Stop & Shop
2. The stock room at one of our new work sites. This is a children’s playhouse. Can’t wait to see how we grow with this placement 🎭
3. Next door to that playhouse was a cat my students were obsessed with 🐱
4. Baby Dino snoozin 🦖

A lot of successes this week in the classroom but none of them pictured 🙃 Hopefully more school-based pics moving forward

With only a 3-day work week we sure did get a lot done. I had my first observation Friday where we focused on hygiene and taking care of our skin with deodorant, nail filing, & lotion 💅🏻 The students enjoyed it and I would definitely do it again. This week is also the last chance for my family to move out of our apartment and into our home! Lots of driving back and forth, donating things, & selling items 😮‍💨 Officially turn in the keys on Tuesday.

Week 4 of 43

1. Thrift Shop for donations
2. Revisiting our school ramp for wheelchair access ♿️
3. Checklists rule
4. Snack organization
5. White paint why not
6. Apartment mess
7. Will miss these beautiful windows 🪟
8. Baby boo 👻

We are over halfway through the school year and I realized I never made a post about my new job. So here goes!

I am teaching in an autism program at a non-public school in New York. Our campus has 2 school buildings. My building has the autism program which serves 11 classrooms spanning PreK through age 21 and has a model apartment students get to use monthly. My classroom is currently ages 12-15 😎

I have been learning a lot about Children’s Residential Programs as most of my students live in a residence full-time. I have also been learning a lot about transition services & pre-vocational supports for students. The school runs more like an ABA Center rather than through Standards Based Curriculum so I have been learning in this area too.

The internet is a tricky place to share these days and I want to protect myself, my coworkers, and of course my students/families, but hopefully I can share bits & pieces along the way!

“ August —> December —> February —> May “ 😐 and y’all I still have 2 weeks left of SUMMER SCHOOL! ☀️ Best of luck to everyone starting up this week. Keep the wind at your back and the sun on your face! Don’t let them get you down.

we are out of time
DO SOMETHING

thank you

At this point just toss me into the worm bin and let me burrow for 27 days🪱🫠

*Alt caption: Students enjoyed experimenting with Red-worm diets. Which food do you think they ate the fastest? 🫑🍅🍆🥬

The only pose that matters when there are 9 more Fridays left of the school year ✌🏻🌎

Love her perspective on diagnosis and having a neurodivergent family. Though as the article corrects, ASD can be diagnosed as early as 18 months in some people.

Amy Schumer Says She Doesn't 'Have a Preference' Whether Son Gene Is Diagnosed with Autism Amy Schumer speaks candidly about how she would feel if her son Gene is diagnosed with autism, which husband Chris Fischer was diagnosed with as an adult

Welcome to the neighborhood Max! Daniel Tiger is a constant free time choice for many students I have worked with so this representation is a WONDERFUL addition. Glad the show runners hired actually autistic people to work on the show too 🙌🏻

“Including autistic individuals as consultants and in the writers’ room is vitally important to ensuring authentic representation”

🎶 It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine, could you be mine, won’t you be my neighbor? 🎶

New character introduced on ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood’: Meet Max, who has autism There’s a new friend in the neighborhood!“ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” that is.