special needs
I just got back from Disney World thanks to the Social Media Moms Celebration! We had even more fun than last year's Celebration and I didn't think that was possible!
Since we were traveling with my autistic son, I thought I'd compile a list of tips and links to websites that helped us plan our trip. This post is live over at Savvy Source.
One of my best tips is to get an ID tag made. Almost every gift shop has a machine that will create these invaluable tags. I picked the one at the Star Tours ride since it...
I was lucky to get an advance copy of Nan Rossiter's latest novel, Words Get in the Way. A fiction novel about a mother's struggle with a child with Autism.
As a mother of an autistic child myself, I was glad to see that the author not only depicted a child with autism in a realistic way, but also the struggles of the mother. So many times books glaze over the mothers feelings or, even worse, trivialize them as the over-bearing and frazzled care takers. Nan Rossiter perfectly captures the emotions from struggles to joy in this book.
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I get labeled this a lot. "SuperMom."
"Wow! With 3 boys, one who is autistic, a hubby who is a doctor and all you do? You must be a SuperMom!"
"How do you have time to knit or read or even pee without a kid barging in?! You must be a SuperMom!"
"You work from home, travel and have time to take the kids to appointments, practices and school?! You must be a SuperMom!"
I'm here to shatter your world people.
I'm not a SuperMom!
Truth is, I'm normal. I'm flawed. I'm lazy at times and I constantly wonder if I'm a bad mom.
I forget...
I began writing for SavvySource.com to do the local Denver newsletter and some articles on local attractions and events. They recently asked me to do a few articles on Special Needs and of course I jumped at the chance.
Click through to see the links to the articles and snapshot of what they are about....
So many times, when it comes up that Brady is Autistic, people say, "I'm so sorry." I know it's just a saying and they really don't know what to say, but YOU didn't cause it, so why be sorry for it? I'm not sorry he has it. As many people say, "It is what it is."
In some ways we are lucky, we've had two typically developing children and now with Brady and his delays, we also get to stop and enjoy his milestones that with previous kids we didn't necessarily celebrate. There are many more things we, parents of...
I found this video in my itunes last night. Well, actually Carter did and he and Brady were playing it over and over and cracking up. It’s from 2 years ago, almost exactly. November, 2009. Brady had just learned how to crawl on hands and knees. He was 18 months old. Most kids at 18 months are already running all over the place, but crawling on hands and knees was a huge success at this time in his life because he has Hypotonia, Motor Coordination Disorder and a host of other “disorders”. I don’t know why, but this video makes...
I have been working on a toy guide for special needs kids for some time. I pitched the idea to TimetoPlaymag.com and they were just as excited as I was about it. Basically, how this guide differs from other guides out there is it is compiled 100% by a mom of a special needs kid. My son has been in therapy since he was 14 months old for a host of reasons. I was tired of spending hundreds of dollars on therapy tools when I could achieve the same goals with toys we already had on hand. I will be...
Note: I also have this post over at 5 Minutes for Special Needs. This is a website dedicated to help be the voice of special needs kids. It is run by a collection of amazing authors, parents and kids. Please take the time to check it out if you have a chance. Speak Now for Kids is an advocacy campaign of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals (N.A.C.H.) designed to engage child advocates in communicating with Congress before they cut funding for two key children’s health care programs: Medicaid, which funds health care coverage for one in three children...
