Category Archives: Try This Tuesday

Try This Tuesday #47: Stage Not Age

Welcome to Try This Tuesday! This week, DS.MAMA from Down Syndrome New Mama is sharing an awesome resource for tracking your baby’s milestones. I think it could be useful for other children with developmental delays as well, and there are also other versions of this resource available. Stage Not Ageby DS.MAMA One of the first…

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Try This Tuesday #46: G-Tube Meal Containers

This week, Lynn from Pedaling Backwards is sharing one of her many great tips on G-tubes. G-TUBE MEAL CONTAINERSby Lynn After years of trying many containers, I have found these work best: Daily Meal Storage Pyrex 11 cup rectangle (www.pyrex.com). VERY hard to break (haven’t broken one yet unlike every other container type I’ve tried),…

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Try This Tuesday #45: Shoe Shopping

This week, Kristin from The Days of My Life is joining us to share how she handles the difficult task of shoe shopping with her son. SHOE SHOPPINGby Kristin Since my son is autistic, he often doesn’t express himself, for example, when his shoes are too small. And yes, I found this out the hard…

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Try This Tuesday #44: Student Orientation

Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. I know it’s almost summer, but if you’re in the middle of preparing an IEP like I am, you are already thinking about back to school time and how your child will adjust to a new…

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Try This Tuesday #43: How to address lying – by adults???

Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. I actually have a couple of related situations that I would like some input on from other parents. It appears that twice in the last month my son has been told an untruth by the adult…

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Try This Tuesday #42: Know Who To Call For (IEP) Help

Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. Good News and Bad News I was pleased last Thursday to receive a draft copy of my son’s IEP, a week ahead of the team meeting as I had requested. Yippee!! Less pleasing was the fact…

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Try This Tuesday #41: Choosing Therapies

Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. Since the beginning of the year, I have been suggesting topics each week, sort of a take-it-or-leave-it writing prompt, but this week I left it open-ended. For now, I am going to leave it that way,…

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Try This Tuesday #40: Supplemental Therapies

Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Supplemental Therapies. I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it, but I’m thinking about…

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Try This Tuesday #39: Nurturing Your Relationships

Welcome to another Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Nurturing Your Relationships. How do you make the time to connect with other adults and maintain the…

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Try This Tuesday #38: Safety Awareness

Welcome to another Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Safety Awareness. How are you teaching your child to be safe, whether it is around traffic, water,…

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