Misc Special Needs

I posted about Ethan's Cleft Lip surgery when he was 3 months old and that explains the starting of his cleft lip and cleft palate repair journey. I also shared how we found out that our baby was going to be born with a cleft palate and lip and my struggles that come along with raising a child with a cleft lip and palate. Normally a child...

Life had got the best of me since we went on vacation back at the end of August, and because of it my blog has really suffered. I figured it was about time for an update as to what is going on around here. There is a LOT which is why I haven't posted in quite a while. We are in the process of...

Welcome to day 4 of our series 5 Days Of Sensory Processing Disorder!  On Monday I explained What Sensory Processing Disorder is, Tuesday I shared How Sensory Processing Disorder Effects your kids, and yesterday I shared the many sensory ideas we use in our house regularly to implement a sensory diet each day. Today I am going to talk about the importance Early Intervention, this...

Next week I am taking part in the Schoolhouse Review Crew Blog Hop. There will be 90 bloggers that are participating in the blog hop, are each choosing a topic to write about for the 5 days of the blog hop. I have chosen the topic Sensory Processing Disorder because it is a topic that I have learned so much about over the last...

I have been accepted as a member of the Children Claritin Mom Crew for 2013, with the fact that there are 4 of us who have pretty bad allergies and Children's Claritin is something that we use regularly and were very excited about participating in this wonderful opportunity. This spring has been especially horrible with allergies in our house and Claritin is the only...

I have had an interesting time working on getting our school area a way that will work for us since moving our school from the entire main floor to the lower level. We first set the room up so that all the toys were upstairs and the whole area was the school room. That didn't work well, since the little boys would sneak down...

The last couple weeks have not been so good around here, my health once again took a turn for the worse and it has been impossible to keep up with everything. When I can't get everything done, my blog and email are the things that tend to suffer of course, so it has left everything quiet for a little bit. I am slowly getting...

Because we have come so far, and Ethan has overcome so many of his sensory processing disorder behaviors I often think of him as a normal child, one without a disability. This last week was a bitter reminder to me that we are far from a child without disabilities, and something as simple as our daily routine being different in preparation for a garage...

At the end of our school year, me and the kids worked to split our schoolroom in half. We decided that we needed an area for the boys to get their energy out in the winter and an area where sensory motor skills could be worked on daily without mom having to worry about what might break in the process. I shared our new classroom...

With the fact that Ethan was born with a cleft palate, he did not talk much when he was younger, and when he did talk he was so difficult to understand no one but me could understand what he was saying most of the time. We taught him sign language very early on, and he was able to communicate with everyone in the house...

On top of the 5 ER trips we had last week we also had 4 check ups for different kids at the doctors office (2 separate visits) all of which went good for the most part... We discussed with the doctor the fact that Anthony has been having horrible night terrors. Now if you have never experienced a child having night a night terror, let me...

God has lead us down a long road and we have learned so much through this journey with surgeries, IEP's, Special Education Services, Physical/Occupational/Speech therapy in the last 2 years with Ethan. At the beginning of the school year I thought it was the worst thing ever to put him into the public school systems for anything other that strictly this therapy and to...