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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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 [...] I’ve been falling a bit behind on my reading lately. I did manage to finish Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses Of Gifted Children And Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, And Other Disorders a couple weeks ago, but had bookmarked a number of pages to review and have yet to go back to it. I wanted to [...] A lot can happen in a week. First, I got invited to an interview at my first choice graduate school. I’m very excited and also terribly nervous. I have a bit less than two weeks to prep for the interview. I’m not even sure exactly what prepping I should do, but have already started to pick [...] As I walked with my husband and boys door to door tonight, I was reminded how strange a holiday Halloween is. You dress your kids up in costumes and take them to strangers’ houses to get loaded up with a bunch of junk food. Plus you also have to hand out junk food to random kids [...] Back in May, Lisa from BrightKids recommended I take a look at The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Kids who Talk Late. While I read reviews and the Google preview, it wasn’t until now that I got my hands on an actual copy. The book is interesting so far, though it doesn’t seem to have a ton of [...] I spoke a while ago about C’s food allergies. In gearing up for the new school year, I’m getting all the paperwork and medications ready for his new school. I have to say that his new school seems way better than his last about managing food allergies. They have very clear policies for dealing with food [...] I always remember summers flying by when I was a kid. This summer seemed that way too. It’s hard to believe we’re well into August and quickly approaching the new school year. I still have to buy C’s school supplies and get his paperwork updated for his 504 plan. Until C is old enough to reliably [...] I think it’s inevitable that every child will be teased at some point or another. Of course we never want our kids to go through this, especially when they’re young and unprepared. C has a hard time understanding when people are teasing and an even harder time understanding why anyone would do anything mean spirited. This week [...] I chose an interesting title for my post today, because it just seemed to fit. You see, the other day I had a strange conversation with my mother. She’s witnessed some of C’s meltdowns and always tries to analyze the reasons behind them as more than his just being overly emotional (emotional overexcitability) along with hungry, [...] |
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