At a Crossroads (Center for Children w/Special Needs)

Over the summer we were lucky enough, thanks to Thrivant for Lutherans, to be able to privately send Kaitlyn to Crossroads Center for Children. Feel free to click the logo to check out their website. I'm so grateful to them and all the work they did with Kaitlyn for the VERY short time she was there. She did AMAZING there and loved it and told the teachers she wished she could come EVERYday.

It was crazy how every single day of school in Preschool we fought and she cried and kicked and hid just trying to get her into the classroom and how I had to carry her in kicking and flailing and hand her to a teacher and walk away... then we go to Crossroads (who uses ABA methods there - AWESOME!!) and she ever so willingly and happily walked into class everyday, rarely even remembered to say bye to me or anything. She would go hang up her bag & lunch on her hook and go into class without a word. It was amazing how comfortable she was there.

In the short time she was there she definitely learned some sort of social skills because one time we went to the mall to let the kids play and a little girl asked Kaitlyn if she wanted to play and st first Kaitlyn started out her sentence with her own agenda BUT stopped herself short and said, "what's your name?" - something we HAVE never seen her do before!!!!! It was SUCH a huge thing... not to most people but to the parents of a child with Aspergers it was the most wonderful scene and put huge smiles on our faces and made us so proud!

Thank you Crossroads for giving Kaitlyn the few tools you were able to give her in such a short time!

Tyler got to spend some time in the Daycare room at Crossroads as well which was an integrated room (as was Kaitlyn's) and at first he was ok to go and play with his new friends but as the weeks went on he was more and more unhappy about leaving mommy.

They both "Graduated" from Crossroads Center on Aug 19th.