Kevin developed a special friendship this year. This was a big change for him. He has never showed affection to anyone outside of the family other than hugging his respite worker whom he's known for years. This friendship was with one of the girls in one of his classes that has Downs. I think he's drawn to her because she quite and just seems to like him the way he is. The sad thing is they won't be together next year at school. The program at their school was closed and all the students are being moved to other schools. She won't be going to the school that Kevin is assigned to for next year. It was heart breaking the last few days of school knowing this. I took Kevin in a few times the last week of school for meetings with his teacher and his friend's face would just light up when she saw him coming. I decided to have Kevin give her one of his school pictures and from what I hear she basically did a happy dance when she saw it.
A week before the last week of school their class went on a picnic at one of the parks and I was told that the two just walked around the baseball field holding hands just enjoying each others company. His teachers have all said the she seems to calm Kevin, too. Interesting when you think about it. I'm still hoping that she'll end up at his school next year. You never know.
