I started looking after children when I was a teenager babysitting for $2.50 an hour and then, when I was a bit older, I found work as a nanny. It wasn’t until I took a job as a counsellor at a summer camp for children with special needs that I found my niche. I was in love. When I started teaching, there were no positions in Special Education so I spent the first 11 years of my career teaching Kindergarten to Grade 3 honing my classroom management skills, testing, assessing and reporting skills, time management skills, and an assortment of baptism by fire skills no one tells you about before you start teaching. In my 12th year of teaching, a position became available in the Developmentally Delayed classroom, and I jumped at the chance. That year I started a new journey that I would be on for the next 22 years.
