Second and third testing sessions…

My 4.5 year old daughter’s second and third tests were yesterday. Well, they were supposed to be over two days, but Monday’s appt got canceled. So we had one two hour test and then a one hour test after a 2.5 hour break. She seemed to do pretty well on it. They will let me [...]

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First testing session for daughter with selective mutism

Today we had my 4.5 year old daughter K’s first formal testing session with a speech and language pathologist, the first in a battery of tests my daughter will have in the next coming few weeks.
Overall it was a very good day. I was most worried that she wouldn’t say a word for the two [...]

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Selective mutism evaluation partial results.

We had the evaluation Monday to see if my daughter has selective mutism. I went in with worries that she would be mislabeled as high functioning autistic/asperger’s syndrome. Well, I was relieved to find out that wasn’t at all a concern, but there were some other areas of concern.
But let’s start at the [...]

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Wow. I just don’t know if I would ever want to go into research now…

I can’t believe how many stories I read about women in research and the crappy treatment they get. You can read a lot about it in April’s Scientiae Carnival hosted by the Women In Science blog.
I was treated very differently as a woman in the clinical laboratories I’ve worked at. I’ve always [...]

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My life in boxes….

I have a monumental task I’ve been avoiding forever: what to do with the remnants of past careers.
I have about 7 large plastic boxes of old laboratory related papers I haven’t been able to go through since I quit my jobs. It seems like I’ve dreaded the task of looking backwards when [...]

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