She stomps out of the room, each firmly-planted step shaking the floor. Tear-stained, she plunges her face into the pillows on her bed, where she screams and cries. As she starts to calm down, I feel the adrenaline retreating into the places from which it flooded my body. Breathing, relaxing myself, I tend to her…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Cell To Person: A Cerebral Palsy Symposium
I mentioned briefly last week that I had the opportunity to attend a cerebral palsy symposium at Holland Bloorview. To say that it was completely overwhelming with information would be an understatement! I thought I could give you all a readers digest version here. If you need/want to read the detailed post, please head over…
Back to the Basics of Mothering..
Arizona’s scorching heat returned the end of this week, and because both my daughters’ have metabolic energy issues, and the school week was extra busy.. this made for very grumpy girls. Being hot makes us all a little grumpier, but for my girls when their bodies are truly out of fuel- it can reach a…
Social Inclusion for Children with Developmental Disabilities
This week, I received a notice, asking me if I would participate in a research study being done by a local university on the social inclusion of children with developmental disabilities. It states that the university is: looking for participants (parents & guardians) to complete an online study about the social inclusion of preschool and…
A request…
We are seriously having a no good, awful, very bad week. However, we know someone else who is having an exhausting, but exhilarating week… Tammy! See, her daughter is getting married! Married! Daughter! Dresses! Flowers! Mother-of-the-Bride! (all while taking care of Parker, no less) So, how ’bout you go over and give her some extra love and…
The Lost Voice
This morning when I dropped Peanut off for school I realized I didn’t have her iPod Touch. She uses her iPod touch to communicate at school and over the last several months it has been a great way for her to participate in class. This isn’t the first time I have not had her “voice”…
Solidarity & Solutions in The Down Syndrome Community
What app are you using to teach your child to read? How are you addressing aberrant behaviors? What math curriculum are they using at school? How did you get her to _____ (fill in the blank)? Can I see your ABA discreet trial program for _____? How did you get that into your IEP? Is there…
Complacent?
I scrambled up the hill to my daughter’s “old school” to pick up my son from his “new class.” My daughter attended this school from Early Intervention through Kindergarten before being moved to our neighborhood school for first grade. I know most of the Early Intervention staff pretty well, and I know the IEP process…
Starry Night Prom
One local high school has spent the last decade hosting a gala for people with disabilities. A tremendous gift of love from a student body whose only goal is the make sure that their guests have a night they will long remember. The Starry Night prom.
The Memory of When All This Began
Finding my desk seems to be a monthly routine. Find it. Bask in the warmth of my clean office, with my most favorite dinning table turned into desk in plain site, no longer engulfed with the bills paperwork…until the month comes around and I fulfill the same process again. It has its perks. This month…