Penny Richards is a Mom who sees the bigger picture. In addition to posting about cool stuff in the world of disability studies, geography and history at the Disability Studies blog, Penny also shares the positive side of parenting a child with disabilities. Thanks, Penny, for sharing your views in today’s interview! Tell me a…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
A Train Unit
Vocabulary Signs: Train Train Sounds: TRAIN SOUNDS Circle Time/Opening Song/Poem/Fingerplay: “Trains” Here’s a little choo-choo train Chugging down the track Now it goes forward Now it goes back Now the whistle blows Whooooo, Whooooooo! What a lot of noise it makes Everywhere it goes Chooo-chooo-chooo! The train comes running back. Fingerplay: This is a choo-choo…
Not coping with his coping style
Madeline was diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome, ADHD, and OCD at the age of eight with me and my husband at her side. It’s been two years since that day and my husband has yet to let the word Tourettes pass through his lips. We never talk about it and I’m sad about that. We have…
The Trouble With Birthday Parties
My son has been invited to several birthday parties in the past few months, most of which were for children from his preK class. A year ago, I would have hesitated to take him, knowing that he would spend most of his time playing by himself or having a meltdown from all the activity, but…
The Power of Music
Music is an integral part of our family. My husband is a musician by profession, so for as long as we’ve been together our house has been full of the sounds of flamenco, jazz, rock, and classical music. It was no surprise then that our children took to music like ducks to water. For Zoe,…
Walking Forward
My day started as usual. Waking up as my husband made his way to his summer job. Reed works a second job during the summer in order to make ends meet. Well, actually making ends meet is a bit optimistic. More like trying his best to lessen the ever widening gap between what we have…
The Last To Blink
I am a very positive person and almost always see my glass as half full. I don’t mind a challenge, especially when it comes to the rights of my children with disabilities. My first approach is to be pleasant and professional, but I have no problem going toe to toe. And I promise you, I…
Working The Chewy Tube
Parker has been totally g-tube fed for the last year now. Before that Pediasure found it’s way to Parker’s belly via an ng-tube. While this has (theoretically) solved the problem of getting enough calories a day into our guy, it also created a new issue. How was Parker going to learn to eat. You know….
Special Exposure Wednesday, Share Your Photo
Finally! Our first Special Exposure Wednesday. What? This is news to you? You can find out what is going on by reading Welcome to Special Exposure Wednesday. Then join the sharing today with your direct photo link on Mr. Linky below and a comment on this post. Do you regularly participate in Wordless Wednesday? Well…
It’s Fun to Learn at the YMCA
Mac sits at the kitchen table staring out the window, ignoring his school work, existing in another world. Suddenly he turns and looks at me with a smile. "Mom, my seizure is over." "What?" "You know how lots of times I sit and stare into space. That’s a seizure." "Where did you learn about seizures?"…