Lesson #9: Getting Ready for True Academics: 5th grade - If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

Lesson #9: "Getting Ready for True Academics: 5th grade - If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." In this episode, Dr. Rick talks with the McCormick family about their perspectives on how they successfully navigated their children through school.

Show Notes

• Stanley Greenspan MD and Serena Weider PhD, Engaging Autism, 2006 - gives a good description of the higher functional emotional developmental capacities.
• Autism: 10 Lessons for the Course of Life: Lesson # 7 on School Advocacy and related resources: https://aadl.org/10lessons-lesson7/
• Certificate or Diploma? Wright's Law: https://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/certificate-instead-of-a-diploma-is-this-ok/
• Staying Longer in School to get a Diploma: https://www.research.chop.edu/car-autism-roadmap/are-four-years-of-high-school-enough-when-to-stay-longer/