Welcome to the new St. Ann’s Home & School Blog. We have been working to up-date and improve our web site to make it easier to use and easier to find for school systems, parents, families, caregivers and guardians looking for information on residential, day school, and other programs for a child or adolescent with and emotional, behavioral, or mental health disability. It’s a “work in progress”, so please stay tuned.While I am new to “blogging”, I am not new to the areas of special education and developmental disabilities. You see, besides working here at St. Ann’s, I am also the father of a seventeen year old son with Aspergers Disorder, often described as “high-functioning Autism”, who attends a residential school here in Massachusetts. I am all too familiar with the stressors, emotions, and the trials and tribulations of raising a child with special needs. I can empathize with what parents, guardians, and their child, have to go through.As the Director of Development here at St. Ann’s, my job is to direct a...

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