Yes, I find summers and school breaks to be the hardest since we don't have the same sort of structure that school offers. I try my best to provide structure for his day, but things come up and we have to change plans. That's when the meltdowns happen. The summer between Kindy and 1st was horrible since we were still trying to figure out what was going on with him. He turned 10 in May and I think this summer was much better than previous summers. Now when we get up in the morning, he'll ask me, "What do we have planned for today?" I tell him and I try my best to stick to it. If there's something that might change, I emphasize it over and over that X *might* happen or if we can't do that, then we'll do Y. He seems to be better about it. When he was in 1st and 2nd grade, we made a poster with words and pictures of his morning and bedtime routines and hung it in his room. I think that was good for him to have something to refer to when he lost focus or forgot what he was supposed to be doing. Maybe his therapist would have ideas to help for weekend structure.

My older son had some regression too. It felt like we'd go two steps forward, one step back. And some weeks it felt like one step forward, two steps back!

Academically, he really made a lot of progress in 3rd and 4th grades. By the end of 4th grade (this past June), he was pretty much on level with his peers, right where he should be. He also made huge progress socially in 4th grade and started to find friends.