My top ten rules for parenting a child with a disability: 1. Accept. This doesn’t mean giving up, it means giving everything you have to make your child’s life as good as it can be. To accept, you acknowledge the gift hidden within the pain. You learn to see the silver lining. My silver lining [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pdd-nos’
Top Ten Rules
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advocacy, autism, developmental disabilities, disabilities, forgiveness, love, parenting, parenting a special needs child, pdd-nos, rules for disabilities, special needs on May, 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
1 in 88
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1 in 88, autism, autism diagnosis, autism screening, daughters, developmental disabilities, disability, early indicators, pdd-nos on March, 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I rarely watch the news but last night for whatever reason it was on and I was curious as the lead story was the new CDC statistics on autism. Of course the statistics given were startling–1 in every 88 children will be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Very startling. What stayed with me more [...]
Transition objects
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, autism, pdd-nos, strategies, transitions on July, 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I thought it was be useful to document the amazement that I had when my girl went on an outing without her usual stack of books. This may seem like a minuscule event in the world of many people, but in our corner of the world it is one that warrants documenting. For as long as I [...]
exposure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, disability, pdd-nos on April, 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Seven months of weekly battles to show up to the volunteer job at the hospital ended. The text messages usually began around noon begging to not have to go. The silence in the car on the drive over. The shoe change at the same stop light each week. The routine of a Starbucks afterwards. The [...]
mothering/enabling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, daughters, joint attention, motherhood, pdd-nos, theory of mind on February, 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had a conversation yesterday about not doing the “thinking” for students with Autism. Allowing them to process and also look around and get clues as to what is going on. Attempting to not answer for them and creating opportunities to think and execute for themselves. I amuse myself with my ability to know this [...]
If only
Posted in autism, tagged autism, daughters, developmental disabilities, grief, life, motherhood, parenting, pdd-nos on July, 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I took my girl for a pedicure today. Most often, she goes alone….something that took months of backchaining skill development to consistently do independently. It was a process that she is now comfortable doing. And yet, I am absolutely certain that if I took her to a different nail salon, she would not access the [...]
is she 16, or…
Posted in autism, disability, life, tagged autism, daughters, developmental disabilities, life, pdd-nos, reflections on July, 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I recalled the other day a conversation I once had with a doctor or psychologist many years ago. I asked this person if there would be a time when my girl “peaks” and then the development slows in relation to her biological age. I wondered if she would continue the trend. I had it in [...]
she now watches…..
Posted in autism, tagged anxiety, autism, daughters, developmental disabilities, pdd-nos, success on July, 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In previous years a social gathering, such as a 4th of July party, would have sent her to the isolation of the basement with her large stack of books and a Nintendo. At this years gathering, I sat across the lawn and watched her observing people, one might say she was almost completely in tune [...]
