Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child

A Hypothetical Preschool IEP
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child So let's say you had an IEP meeting scheduled for a Tuesday and on the previous Thursday you realized that you had a legal right to get the evaluation results in advance for your review, but you didn't actually receive anything. So, hypothetically, the following day you call the School Psychologist and she says sure she'll email you the "draft" the following day, but...
Thu, Oct 28 2010

Updates On Testing For ASD
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child So I mentioned a few weeks ago about the possibility of Austin being diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. While the "official" report is not yet complete the Psychologist did inform me that she is going to say that he has PDD (Pervasive Development Disorder.) This is good news, sort of. I mean, let's face it I was hoping she would laugh me out of the office and scold m...
Wed, Sep 29 2010

Deaf Awareness Week 2010
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child It's Deaf Awareness Week. Do you know ASL? If you don't, this video by D-PAN (Deaf Professional Artists Network) may inspire you to learn. Waiting On The World To Change John C. Mayer Me and all my friends We're all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There's no way we ever could Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and ...
Sun, Sep 19 2010

Please Teach Your Children About Differences
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child Thankfully Austin is still young and doesn't understand what happened yet. But I DO! And frankly it is irritating me that more parents have not taught their children about how rude it is to gasp, stare and point at my 2 year old son. Yes, I'm serious. Today we went to a local Barnyard Farm Zoo. It was just Austin, the nurse and I. It was the first time we did not ta...
Sun, Jun 13 2010

The Breakfast Club - Part II
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child I am getting emails and phone calls for this update. So you know what that means? I better see some comment love folks. Yeah, you know who you are. ;) We had our follow-up appointment with the Breakfast Club this past week. It was a 2 1/2 hour deal that had our day starting by leaving the house at 6:30 AM. Trust me when I tell you I was making some coffee as so...
Tue, Jun 01 2010

He CAN Hear!! - ( Part II)
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child I keep saying I want to do an update on Austin's hearing progress, but I get bogged down in the details and never get to it. But, first let me back up. When I left off Austin had just received his...
Mon, Aug 31 2009

You Don't Have To YELL
Sneak Peek: Raising A Special Child Perhaps there are just a lot of people out there to educate about dealing with Special Needs kids, or in this case, Special Needs Moms like me. I get it. Not everyone has grown up around...
Fri, Jul 31 2009