Our Fill In The Blankie Winner is: Colleen from The Princess and the Monkey! Enjoy! I’ll be emailing you soon! You can also find Tammy and Parker hanging out at their other blog: Praying For Parker and Twitter where they are known as ParkerMama.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Helping your child’s homework responsibilities.
Many children have difficulty planning and organizing their homework. A child with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, TBI and other neurological conditions, however, tends to have an especially difficult time organizing to both do homework and turn it in. Although the child may be very bright, he/she may fail classes due to lack of turned in…
Taking the Lead
I realized just the other day that we have not had a team meeting at my son’s school since mid-October, despite the fact that we had planned to meet every other month. The Learning Support Teacher, who is the lead person on the IEP, is also supposed to review the forms so that emerging issues…
Decisions
This April, my first born son would have been celebrating his fifth birthday. He would have, except that he died, when he was five days old. Five years is a milestone. A milestone for a little boy, A milestone for a mother, A milestone in grief. Five years, all the books state, is when most…
Again with the Changes, Part II
After I posted last week about Zoe’s transition to middle school, I received some excellent feedback here on 5 Minutes for Special Needs. Thanks to Lisa and Donetta for their comments. I also received an email from Abigail, an elementary school special education teacher, and I thought I would share some of her suggestions. Here’s…
Where’s the button?
“I’ve got a button stuck up my nose.” “You’ve got a button stuck up your nose?” She nods and thrusts a finger up her right nostril. “I can’t get it out.” I sigh. This is the second time Meg’s climbed out of bed since we thought we’d settled her down for the night over an…
Community-Based Instruction
One of my pet peeves with our special education system is the concept of community-based instruction (CBI). Such community trips are a regular part – actually a weekly part – of the curriculum for my children with special needs. And, I believe that is true for almost all school districts serving children with special needs….
Seclusion, Restraint and the Public School System
From My File of Things That Make Me See Red: I’m the mother of a medically fragile child with special needs. This kid has spent many an hour circling the drain. As a matter of fact, I writing this post from his hospital room after a very unexpected surgery on Sunday. The bottom line is…
Special Exposure Wednesday – Simple Pleasures
It’s the simple things in life that often create the most pleasure. Ivy and Noah were given a spinning lights torch and it kept them occupied for the whole day! Want to share some of your simple pleasures? Join in with us at Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link…
The light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter, yo!
Most people want to start the year with resolutions about losing weight, calling their mother more frequently or keeping their house cleaner. MEH! Our resolution is this: Only one hospital stay this year. Can I get an AMEN?! Because we’re already scheduled for it and if all goes well it makes all further hospital visits…