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Archive for June, 2008

It’s nice to have goals. Now I just need to make them happen.

Posted in creating harmony on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been MIA for a while since I’ve been trying to get a handle on things here at home. Between trying to get our juvenile amphibians to eat, and trying to declutter, I’m trying to figure out how I can get a better handle on things at home and within.
I’m quickly approaching [...]

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Creating a sensory diet at home.

Posted in highly sensitive child, selective mutism, spd, tagged , on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We haven’t started my SPD daughter on any formal sensory OT just yet. I wanted to see if the IEP last week was going to cover any OT for her. It didn’t. But that’s okay. There’s plenty of ideas on the internet for creating a sensory diet at home. The [...]

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The IEP meeting is over. I can breathe a sigh of relief.

Posted in IEP, selective mutism, spd, tagged , on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We had a very good experience at the IEP meeting. I gather from a lot of people at least online, that IEP meetings aren’t always very good.
This is what was decided based on the neuropsych’s report (so we didn’t have to have her tested again).
She was given a classification of a communication [...]

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Life’s work and motherhood

Posted in career, combining science and motherhood, motherhood, tagged , , , on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Okay, so I’ve been waylaid recently by my daughter’s diagnosis of selective mutism and SPD. A LOT of the posts of late have been revolving around that topic. I’d like to get back on the goals I have for this blog and that is to speak of the impact and changes that motherhood [...]

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Finding clues to her selective mutism (about retained primitive reflexes).

Posted in retained primitive reflexes, selective mutism, spd, tagged , , on June 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I used to read young adult mysteries. My favorites were Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Phyllis A. Whitney’s young adult collection of mysteries with strong heroines and evocative titles like “Mystery at the Isle of Skye” and “Secret of Haunted Mesa”. Oh, yeah, and I used to love to read Agatha Christie.
Sometimes I [...]

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We have an IEP meeting!

Posted in IEP, selective mutism, spd, tagged , on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I received a call from the woman handling my daughter’s case through the local special education cooperative in my county on Monday. I was told that she received the report and had a chance to look it over. While she said my daughter’s scores were good, the selective mutism is something that will [...]

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