Second grade a success for Aidan a autistic 7-year-old

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Second grade a success for Aidan

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The end of the school year signals a new beginning for autistic 7-year-old;

the transition to third grade will take all summer. A year ago, special

education teacher Larissa Kaatz wouldn't have had any trouble picking little

Aidan Villaseñor- out from the crowd. Aidan, who was diagnosed with

autism at age 3, would've been screaming, crying and almost incapable of

standing in line with his classmates at Maplewood Elementary School, she

said. Yet, during the school's end-of-the-year track and field day, she

initially looked right over the brown-haired second-grader as he sat along a

fence, eating snacks with classmates.

Jimmy Kilpatrick

Special Education Advocate and Consultant

<http://www.specialedadvocate.org/> SpecialEdAdvocate.org

P.O. Box 17392

Sugar Land, Texas 77496-17392

832 814-7463

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