Do you know someone who isn’t sure whether or not to pursue a medical diagnosis for a developmentally delayed son or daughter? According to the Centers for Disease Control, most children with autism are diagnosed after age 4. Certain other developmental and learning disabilities are usually not diagnosed until a child enters elementary school. These [...]
Does your child play with toys? If so, this article isn’t for you. You should probably Google “hottest toys of 2012.” Is your child scared of blinking, beeping toys? Is your child unable to understand the rules of most games? Does your child lack interest in typical toys? Is your child delayed when it comes to basic [...]
I am an advocate for children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I didn’t seek the job. I didn’t even know it existed until our twenty-six-year-old son was diagnosed with PTSD one week and successfully treated for it the next. The adventure began the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2008 when our son Allen called. “Mom,” he asked, “will [...]
Don’t Worry! Let me assure you that life will get easier. When my daughter was young, I was sure that life as I once knew it was over. Kids will be Kids Going to the grocery store with two toddlers seemed impossible. One of my children could not walk and the other child was running [...]
Starting a conversation with “Please don’t take this the wrong way” or “I hope this doesn’t upset you” doesn’t mean that you can then go on to be cruel, insensitive or intolerant. It just means that really you know you are about to make a wrong decision but haven’t bothered to find an alternative. Now [...]
Children with special needs often struggle to speak. This is most likely because the act of speaking is a complex fine motor skill, requiring hundreds of precise, planned, executed and coordinated oral motor movements, which are expressed as vowels and consonants. A great deal of practice is needed for words to become automatic and spoken with ease, [...]
