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Parenting A Special Needs Child: A Story of Struggle and Survival
As an expectant mom, I remember scouring and assessing my child-to-be’s gene pool, but like Forrest Gump’s Momma’s famous pearl, “Life is Like a Box Of Chocolates and you never know what you’re gonna get!” You cannot control who your children will be or what they will be predisposed to (at least not yet, but give science just a bit longer). Any expectant parent has … [Read more...] about Parenting A Special Needs Child: A Story of Struggle and Survival
A Mother’s Thoughts On The Oklahoma SAE Racism Scandal
All day, all over the news, all over social media, at the water cooler in the office, there has been talk of the video of the SAE fraternity chapter at OU that went viral. The video showed fraternity brothers, along with their dates, aboard a bus chanting a song full of racial smut. Obviously there are several things about this video that sadden me. For one, I am the mother to … [Read more...] about A Mother’s Thoughts On The Oklahoma SAE Racism Scandal
Children with Autism and Outside Agencies – Part 2
In my last blog, I discussed how I took my son to an outside agency (by “outside“ I mean one that is not directly funded by the school district) to be tested for reading comprehension. He had scored low. Then, at his first fifth grade testing, he again scored low. Right before his December IEP, however, he was retested and the numbers were significantly better. He … [Read more...] about Children with Autism and Outside Agencies – Part 2
Children with Autism and Outside Agencies – Part 1
Should you get testing done from an outside agency? Before my son began fifth grade, his reading comprehension was tested through an independent agency (not affiliated with the school district). Why did I have my son tested? One area that some children with autism tend to struggle with is reading comprehension. Our kids tend to be literal thinkers and have trouble with abstract … [Read more...] about Children with Autism and Outside Agencies – Part 1