Travel Is Good (But No Place Like Home)
It’s back to school and we’ve been noting the time and date for Back to School Night (this Thursday), how to explain to the bus aide and driver that Charlie needs a little extra time to get out of his seat after the bus pulls up, what afterschool activities to pursue. Tomorrow’s New York Times has an article about traveling with autistic children on planes, trains, and airplanes, and cruise ships—-one family in particular does what we do, renting a house at the Jersey Shore. The NY Times mentions a couple of places, too, that have programs for special needs kids: Adam’s Camp at Snow Mountain Ranch, in Granby, in Colorado; Smugglers’ Notch Resort in Vermont; and the Autism on the Seas cruises.
We’ve already purchased our tickets to go to California to see my relatives in December. I’m still remembering some discussions from the past summer about autistic kids on airplanes—-for the moment am feeling glad to be home and back in the routine of things.
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4 opinions for Travel Is Good (But No Place Like Home)
Cait
Sep 13, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Snow Mountain Ranch is WONDERFUL - I can’t speak for that particular program, but SMR is a great place for a vacation in general. The other YMCA of the Rockies location (Estes Park) was where my family went every summer.
Bonnie Sayers
Sep 13, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Too bad Jenny had to be mentioned in the NY TImes article. I know Victoria, she took part in my makingpecs cards yahoo group. I have 510+ members so not sure if she still is there, will have to send that story to my group.
I have been thinking about a three day cruise out of LA for us, need to go to the autism cruises site and see if they updated their calendar for spring 2009.
I have yet to hear of back to schoool night for Matthew and he started school before Charlie.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Sep 13, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Charlie’s teacher wrote to the whole class at the end of the first week—-I was kind of surprised it is so soon after school starts. They are kind of hyper-organized in some ways, our school district——hope you hear soon about Back to school night.
Yes, I kind of thought autism was getting a fair amount of attention “BJ” (”Before Jenny”)!
sharon
Sep 14, 2008 at 7:04 am
A friend of mine loves to go on cruises and keeps asking me to go. I guess I have no excuse now. ;)
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