Three Months, Lots of Changes

In the past almost three months since my last post, alot has happened. I guess the most significant item is the fact that my son's center, Step by Step Academy will be closing. This is very disheartening. Logan was doing SO well there. One more year, and he could be put into a mainstream school and interact with other children his age that were normal, and he could have some sense of normalcy, as much as he could. However, Gov. Strickland and his appointed staff of yes men (and women) saw differently. Strickland didn't like the fact that the school was succeeding at it's job, which is trying to recover autistic children and turn them into future taxpayers, (which we all know that's what they view children as), as well as doctors, news anchors, scientists and other professions. Never mind that. It's all about the here and now. He wants that money for one of his hair-brained "education" schemes.

Now, we have no idea what we are going to do to get Logan the therapy he needs. ODJFS and OMRDD were supposed to get things lined up for us if/when Step by Step was closed or reduced. We had a care coordination meeting with ODJFS as well as the Autism Society of Ohio's Vice President Charlie Flowers come to our house. We were told that we were to basically do what ODJFS was supposed to do. Nothing like losing a month of time to find funding and places to take Logan due to a lobbyists idiocy.

Melissa has been working her tail off trying to get services for Logan. She's working the phones to try and get him respite services, maybe another ABA therapy service, anything that will help us help him achieve the goal of getting him into a mainstream school.

Logan has also been receiving in-home as well. It works very well and I'm proud of all of his progress. The BT's that come here are awesome, and work very well with him. They always remark how well he does, and how much they love working with him. I guess we did something right in raising him.


I'm very proud of him, and I'll always be there to help him, as well as all my daughters, in dealing with his autism in a positive way. It's tough at times, but I know in my heart that we will make it through this tough time. This is a very stressful time for Melissa and I. The not knowing what will happen is very scary, but I'm confident that we'll make it through.