I Always Wanted My Son to Go to Yale...

I always wanted my son to go to Yale, but certainly not under these considerations. We dropped Sophia off to her Nana's house (her surrogate grandmother/babysitter) and off we were to Connecticut to the Yale Child Study Center Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic on Tuesday, November 26 - ironically, two days before Thanksgiving. We began his evaluation on Tuesday and and followed up with a further evaluation on Wednesday. Details are coming - a final report is expected within the next few weeks. But alas - all went as I anticipated, although, not as I hoped for.

After two days of evaluations, we met with the social worker and head of the clinic. They reviewed the results of his test with us, and when there was no more material to review, I could feel apprehension, the pending doom - the look of "How will they respond to this?" as they went on to give the diagnosis. Zach has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.