Tonight when I put C to bed, he told me “Mommy, I think I’m unusual. I mean, I’m not like other kids in a lot of ways.” This is the first time he’s ever expressed that and I was a bit surprised. Despite all the things that are unusual about C, he’s never seemed to pay [...]
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In a little over an hour we’re scheduled for a feedback session with the neuropsychologist. The full report won’t be ready yet, but he felt it was important for us to talk before C starts school next week. I’m nervous about what we may find out, but also relieved that we won’t be waiting until the [...] C is about half-way through his neuropsychological evaluation and while I don’t have any results yet, it seems the doctor has already ruled out an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Back in February C’s school sprung on me that they suspected he had Asperger’s syndrome. This really caught me off guard, because I’m familiar with Asperger’s and C [...] It’s hard to believe that August is halfway over. This summer seems to be flying by, especially with the boys and schoolwork to keep me busy. I’m finishing up a developmental psychology course now, just in time to start the fall semester in a couple weeks. I enjoy the classes, but it is very time consuming. [...] I know I get a number of visitors who are interested in speech delays, specifically phonological process disorders or initial consonant deletion. I wanted to take a moment to give an update on Z, C’s little brother. Z graduated from private speech therapy back in March, but continued on through Early Intervention receiving services [...] SENG is up for a grant from Pepsi. Please vote for them here: www.refresheverything.com/seng Yesterday I updated my WordPress theme and temporarily lost my photos. Luckily that was a simple fix. Other than a slight change of look, I think everything is still in its place. It reminds me, though, that I haven’t updated [...] After not expecting to hear back from our school district until the fall, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a letter last week stating that they agreed to our request for an independent educational evaluation. They sent us a short list of psychologists and neuropsychologists they have worked with and one had been a neuropsychologist [...] Well, I guess I couldn’t really count on an hour with yet another doctor to suddenly enlighten what has been unclear to so many others and ourselves. After a brief conversation, the developmental pediatrician said that it’s possible C has both ADHD and Asperger’s. However, she then had us fill out another Asperger scale, looked at [...] Well, tomorrow I take C to the developmental pediatrician. I wonder if we’ll come away with any answers. I kind of wonder what she will be able to determine from a handful of records and an hour-long appointment. Maybe this will at least set us on the right path. It’s amazing how backwards our medical system [...] There is nothing quite like getting your brain in gear with intensive summer classes after being out of the classroom for nearly 6 years. I’ve spent the past week immersed in gifted pedagogy and am just taking a short break before getting back to homework. My goal, at least for now, is to try to get [...] |
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