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 #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…
We’re Not So Very Different…
I sat backstage tugging off her ballet slippers, coaxing her to help put crayons away amidst a giggling knot of pint-sized ballerinas. With the recital just days away, it was a relief to finally be done with the dress rehearsal and my thoughts wandered toward dinner and bedtime plans as I scrabbled after one last…
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…
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,…
Preparing For A Medical Emergency With A Medically Fragile Child…
A very wise NICU nurse once told me, “Sometimes the difference between life and death is in being prepared.” I took those words to heart and they saved my daughters life. More than once. When you have a medically fragile child, it can feel like you barely have time to catch your breath before the…
Try This Tuesday #33: Communicating with Non-verbal Children
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: Communicating with Non-Verbal Children. I encourage those of you living or working with non-verbal children to join in and post or leave a…
Try This Tuesday #27: Teaching Impulse Control
Wow, what a great response last week to the topic of getting a pet. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and experiences on the subject – it was really helpful to me and to others as well, I’m sure! Topic Suggestion for this Week: Teaching Impulse Control This topic was requested via the comments…
Looking Back and Moving Forward
As I look back over 2008, I am amazed by the changes this year has brought in my life. And the biggest change by far has been my introduction to the world of blogging. I had no idea when starting Another Piece of the Puzzle last January that I would connect with so many other…
Would you save a life if you could?
When Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia, one question that we were asked repeatedly was, “She needs a bone marrow transplant, right?” I would have to explain that bone marrow transplant is a last ditch effort, that you don’t do it unless nothing else works, you don’t WANT to do bone marrow transplant. There’s nothing easy,…