Just recently I had one of the bathrooms in our home remodeled to be accessible for my daughter, Ashley. Ashley is 13 years old, deafblind and has had two brain tumors removed in the past, and currently has three more that her doctors are closely watching. All of that sounds rather daunting, but she lets…
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The “Write” Way
Helping Zoe improve her fine motor skills is something we’ve worked at for quite some time. Things like holding pencils and crayons, cutting, and using fasteners have always been a challenge for Zoe. When it came time to learn to write, Zoe was clearly having a tough time. She’d get frustrated because doing the work…
Caring, Curing and Aiding Pediatric Research
Parenting children is not an easy job. Parenting children with special challenges adds more complications to the task. Parenting children with chronic or life threatening medical conditions is frightening. While we as parents need support and education, we must not forget the fact that our children do, too. Whether physically healthy, living with special challenges…
Try This Tuesday #3: Using Videos as Instructional Tools
When my son was younger, I often felt guilty about letting him watch children’s television and videos, especially since I kept hearing about the negative effects of too much screen time. I was amazed, however, by his ability to virtually memorize entire DVDs as well as by the amount of detail he could remember. At…
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…
Try This Tuesday #1: Using a Timer
It’s time for the first official Try This Tuesday, and I hope you will participate by sharing a creative solution you have found to make your child’s life or your family’s life a little bit easier. For more information about how this meme will work, you can read the welcome post, but here are the…