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 [...] 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 [...] While I still haven’t heard back from the neurologist at CHOP, C’s pediatrician, or my insurance company, I finally had some success with a local developmental pediatrician. The doctor C was going to see next May was able to get us in sooner. This required a lot of persistence and patience on my part. When I [...] Wow, it’s been a year of blogging already. Today is my one year blogiversary! Looking back, I see that I managed to post a lot more frequently in the beginning. I think I had a lot pent up that I wanted to get out, plus didn’t know yet about some of the great gifted communities already [...] A few weeks ago the New York Times posted an article about the inaccuracy of preschool IQ tests, in particular in relation to competitive kindergarten admissions in New York. Recently they posted an article about a number of states (including Pennsylvania) that will soon offer testing allowing students to graduate from high school up to two [...] 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 [...] I did finally talk to C last weekend about the testing. I was quite surprised that he had no questions at all. I told him he’d be going back to the same school where he did some tests before to do two more math and reading tests and he just accepted it. This is really out [...] Time is just flying by and now C’s additional testing with our public school district is just days away and I still haven’t mentioned it to him. I will have to this weekend, but still am uncertain how I will approach it. I’m not sure whether I should be honest and tell him that it’s likely [...] |
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