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How to Deal With Concerned Questions Regarding Your Special Needs Child

07.22.2016 by Dawn // 4 Comments

How to Deal With Questions Regarding Your Special Needs Child

My 15-year-old son’s Beginning Engineering teacher was concerned when he addressed me today. “He was the speaker today for his group presentation for their CAD project, and he really had a hard time getting through it. His stuttering really tripped him up today. It’s not usually this bad. Of course, I know that you know he […]

Categories // Parenting, Special Needs Kids Tags // advocacy, Autism, public school services, speech therapy, stuttering

Autism and Stuttering Therapy

07.03.2015 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

Back to Speech Therapy, Sort of

He met them at 7:30 in the morning, at a local golf course. The whole group is going to a low ropes team-building course, and my husband was invited to go along. We’ve been missing him, our 14 year old, and he’s not even been gone for a week. Being invited to go along on […]

Categories // Homeschooling Tags // Autism, speech therapy, SSMP, stuttering, stuttering workshop

Therapy-Free Summer

06.08.2011 by Dawn // 6 Comments

Therapy Free Summer

It has officially begun. Not summer, yet, but our break from therapies.  I felt like they were handing us the Golden Ticket when D1’s OT said, “You guys need to have a break. Enjoy the summer together as a family and don’t worry about therapies. You deserve it.” Ten years of therapies. 10 years of […]

Categories // Special Needs Kids Tags // ASD, Autism, Autism spectrum, dyspraxia, OT, PT, sensory integration, speech therapy

Life After Occupational Therapy

05.05.2011 by Dawn // 10 Comments

Life After OT

“When was the last time you guys took a break from therapies?” His OT asked me this question, and I hadn’t really thought about it before. “Never,” I replied, “we’ve been at this 2-3 times a week for 10 years.” Wow.  The realization hit me pretty hard after I said it.  We have literally been […]

Categories // Special Needs Kids Tags // Autism, dyspraxia, OT, PDD-NOS, sensory integration, speech therapy, therapies

Social Group

08.25.2009 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

D1 is in his final two weeks of Speech/OT “Social Group”. He’s been going for 45 minutes each Friday. He has been approved to start full OT again, and the OT and SLP are going to change things up once school starts. There is another boy in his group, a year younger, whom he gets […]

Categories // Special Needs Kids Tags // OT, sensory integration, speech therapy

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Dawn is a retired homeschooling Momma of 19 years, hospital CNA with a totally self-taught geeky side. She lives in Eastern WA with her husband, the youngest 2 of their 6 kids and 2 yappy pomeranians.

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