I didn’t expect to cry today, yet that’s how the cards fell. I dropped Ashlynn off at school today, and asked her teacher if she had talked to the OT about changing her name card to all capitals per the private OT recommendation given in my last post . Her face kinda dropped and she said she had talked to the OT, but she wanted to talk to the SPED teacher
Since I’m an SLP, I’ve been in the meetings where we, as well meaning professionals, give our advice and tips. Simple and easy tips that seem so easy, but when you have 4-5 people giving you these tips, the weight seems to get a little heavier. Such was the case tonight. My grant finally ran out for my private OT and speech services that I was able to get starting
We went on a Santa Train again this year at Georgetown Loop Railroad. Ashlynn has never talked to Santa before. When she was 3, she cried and clung to her dad for dear life. When she was 4, we went on a different Santa Train, and though she wasn’t scared, she was too reserved to say anything audible enough for him to hear. This year a four year old girl
I had Ashlynn’s Fall parent-teacher conference for this, her last year of Pre-K. The teacher gave me a HUGE packet for Pre-school standards for my review, and said she didn’t need to go through all of it. Um…okay. She showed me a picture Ashlynn had drawn the first day of school of a person with her name on the paper, and then another current picture of a person
So today I took Ashlynn to her 5 year checkup at the doctor’s office. Her pediatrician is one I met at a pediatrician’s office, but who decided to go work at a family medicine facility. I love the pediatrician, but having her housed in a general practice creates some challenges….such as today. The regular physician assistant was out on vacation, so another one was there to fill in. Though she
Oh apraxia is a sneaky devil. For so long I prayed to just hear her sweet voice say what she wanted to say. At some point she started imitating really well. She didn’t really call out to me “mama” and she didn’t really offer up “I love you” but she could say it in imitation, and this was good. This was very good…because NOT hearing those words was devastating. I