Today is Jonah's last day of school. Ian is done tomorrow. Well, Jonah's school was really done about three weeks ago. He's had a week of half days, and the teachers started handing out worksheets and doing brainteasers ages ago. The school year really ends in April, but they babysit the kids until June 22.

Jonah will go to his fancy camp on Monday. It's ridiculously expensive, so we can only afford to send him for a four week session. But he loves it, so we keep sending him. He's made some very nice friends in other towns, and he'll be a counselor in high school, which will keep him off the streets.

After much debate, we decided to send Ian back to his summer school camp. As part of his program, he'll attend a town recreation program in the morning, and in afternoon, he'll go back to his classroom for academic review and therapy. He doesn't need the academic review, but he does need more speech therapy.

We're getting closer to understanding Ian's strengths and weaknesses. Ian is a visual-spacial thinker. He builds fantastic Lego creations, and he's the pet of any art teacher. He can memorize a page of spelling words instantly. He does math problems in his head. It's hard to not brag about his gifts.

Ian has audio-processing problems. He has trouble hearing the difference between fifteen and fifty. That's why he's had so much trouble learning how to talk. While his right brain is super sized, his left brain is a pea.

I've been looking at various therapy that we can do after school with him. With so many snake oil therapies out there, we've got to carefully choose a program. Then there's the crap of trying to get the health insurance companies to pay for these therapies. I just submitted insurance paperwork for the third time for therapy that Ian had last fall. 

My blog routine is going to shift after today, until the camp kicks in. I'll probably do a couple of quickie posts in the morning and then a longer one in the evening.