I used to sit at this window and watch my children playing outside. I used to sit and wonder what had gone wrong and how I was ever going to be able to pull myself out of the mud. The window was my view to the outside world because I was too scared to leave…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Assistive Technology Tip: Clicker 5 Makes Great Reading Writing Tool
I recently visited the ranch home of friends with a first grader. She has Todd’s Paralysis, which involves epileptic seizures with motor loss. This impacts the girl’s right hand and she has not been able to develop her writing at school. We are exploring some assistive technology tools for her, and Clicker 5 on a laptop is…
Volume Control (and lack thereof)
Some days, I swear I’m looking for the remote or the volume control. And no, it’s not for my TV, it is for my son. My son who abhors loud noises; the one who in every movie we have ever seen in a theatre has to cover his ears for most of the movie. The…
An Unexpected Gift
I get so used to medical procedures being difficult for Ashley that when something good happens, it’s like receiving an unexpected gift. We received one of those gifts recently, and I want to publicly thank Carilion Labs and the wonderful folks who did blood work for Ashley yesterday afternoon. Until recently, there was only one…