Round 4: The Promise of a New School Year

Parents of kids with special needs can get pretty cynical pretty fast -- that's what happens when people sworn to serve your kid break all of their IEP promises without breaking a sweat -- but at the very start of a new school year, it's still possible to imagine that things will go as planned, and nobody will let your kid down, and you won't have to have many many unpleasant meetings with school personnel. Terri chats with Robert Rummel-Hudson about high hopes for this school year, the future that is starting to rise up in front of his daughter, and what it will take to set her successfully on the path to the life she wants. (If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.)