Our column, Photographing Children [with special needs], is suppose to begin May 26. Let’s call this post the preface. Do you remember that as a child playing was your life? In the mind of a child nothing is more important than play and having fun. Remember that. It will serve you well when photographing children…
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…
Around the Blogosphere: Special Needs Edition
We are rolling out a brand new feature here at 5 Minutes For Special Needs! Welcome to Around the Blogosphere: Special Needs Edition (This space reserved for really cool ATB:SNE button. As soon as we get one made. ahem. Anybody want to make us one? ) This is the place to link up all the…
Blog Review
Hi de ho there! “Maddy” here, an interloper. I’ve popped over from “home” to attempt another review at 5 Minutes for Special Needs Moms. I feel it’s only fair to warn you that I am feeling particularly vicious this weekend, must be something to do with the 94 degree heat that we are currently experiencing…
How to Create Great Social Stories
Cindy Golden www.omacconsulting.blogspot.com Don’t you just LOVE social stories? They are wonderful ways of teaching basic social skills to children with special needs. They are really easy to create using small photo albums and photos of the child but have you ever thought about creating one from the wonderful books you find…
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…
A Friend for Matthew
The day before Matthew’s first day of high school, I pushed open the door to Joe’s Barbershop, the intense August heat on my back. Matthew trailed behind me, a big expectant smile on his face. He went straight for the lollipops on the counter, the ones you are supposed to get after the haircut. Trips…
A Lid For Every Pot
While the guys were away visiting, an old friend of mine from the city we used to live in and her husband came to dinner. They’d just dropped off their daughter at camp for a week. There is a fabulous summer program up here in the mountains for kids and adults who have moderate disabilities…
The trickle down effect.
Ivy was denied the three weekly Intragam and so her meltdown week continues. I’m disappointed. Mostly for Ivy because she feels awful for over a week before her next infusion and she just doesn’t know why. Mostly for Ivy because for that week before she has her next IVIG she starts to pick up all…
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Caring for a medically fragile child is one of the hardest things parents will ever face. Although keeping up with medicine schedules, feeding schedules, and all the required doctor and therapy appointments can be tough, the most difficult thing, in my opinion, is being afraid to sleep. Sleeping might mean that you miss the seizure…