The Mindstorm

Category: school

  • You Big Bully

    By now, I’m sure you’ve seen this picture of Alex Wilson, a young boy from Georgia with Cerebral Palsy who was left out of a multi-school choir performance. His teacher, seen conducting the school choir in this photo taken by Alex’s mother, couldn’t have missed him. According to her report, this isn’t the first time…

  • There Are Two Sides to Every Story

    I’m on a bit of a rampage tonight about a fiction, short film that just wrapped filming on So Cal called “IEP.” The director, Jason Gilmore, lists the plot of the film on the film website this way: “IEP is a short film that tells the fictional story of Xavier, an 8-year-old African-American boy in…

  • Relief

    When we talked to Tim on the phone last Thursday, he seemed to be a bit homesick. “When are you coming?” he asked. This is a big change from when he was inpatient. He used to love to play the punishment game with us every time he was in the hospital. The first 2-4 days,…

  • One Week

    A week has gone by since we checked Tim into ODTC for residential treatment. We’ve talked to him on the phone three times, and all three times were pretty much the same: he’s fine, so far everything is good, when are we coming to visit. I think he’s realized that, unlike when he was hospitalized,…

  • All Checked In

    After two years of ICG applications, denials, appeals, IEP meetings, inpatient hospitalizations, broken doors, bruises, rages, locks, letters to elected officials, and vigilance, Tim was admitted to and settled at ODTC yesterday. They were very thourough at intake – took him for a tour, show him his room, then asked us a ton of questions…

  • The Time In Between

    Tim was discharged from the hospital last Saturday. I’d taken our daughter up to Wisconsin to visit my parents for a few days on Thursday, and Tom and Tim joined us on Saturday late afternoon. I wouldn’t normally take him straight from an inpatient stay to visit family, but this was his last chance to…