It is March 14th, 2020. Normally on this day my social media news feed is filled with jokes and memes about Pi day. Today though, I never even thought about it until I saw a faint shadow of a meme posted hiding in the onslaught of posts regarding the CoronaVirus – aka Covid-19. I am 39 years old. In that entire time I have been exposed to the Gulf War
I found a few resources online as to places that may potentially fund speech therapy, but many were dead ends. For that reason, I compiled I guide that I have personally verified to help fund speech therapy.
It started with 5 little words. “I hope I did GREAT!” my ten year old daughter with about every learning disability possible said yesterday in the car. She was referring to her report card after her younger brother had pulled his out of his backpack and celebrated for getting all 3’s. With this new grading system, kids are given a number of 1-4. No one really gets a four because
At the beginning of 2020, the world received word that world famous basketball player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna. After his death, people were chanting and hashtagging #mambamentality. Though I had heard of the “Black Mamba” and the “mamba mentality,” in relationship to Kobe, I have never followed professional basketball that closely, and didn’t really know the origin of the phrases or what they
I never knew before I had a child with an IEP (individualized education plan), how awful these meetings can be for parents.
There’s this saying if you want to know how to treat a child with a disability or special needs, watch their sibling. Today after school I chatted with a mom who has a child with Down Syndrome in third grade. We’ll call him M. Ashlynn my daughter is in the integrated learning center program with him though she is in 4th grade, but they frequently see each other in the