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  • #PPDChat Topic 5.20.13: More than Postpartum depression: Coping When Baby Has Issues Too


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    As I have addressed recently on the blog , facing challenges with your baby in addition to a Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorder is hell. Today, we’re talking about those struggles with a specific focus on the challenges of being a NICU mom during the 8:30pm ET session. Joining me for that session will be ...
    3 days ago

  • Hospital Parking Fees: An Issue Of Health Inequity


    Notes From The Frugal Trenches - A Downshifting Journey — Authority Authority: 128
    As is well-documented in this space , I adopted two children with special needs. Both are followed by 2+ departments at local hospitals and adding in physiotherapy and occupational therapy, I would say that on average, we have five appointments a month year round. This does not include speech therapy which at some ...
    3 days ago

  • The Life of a Mom – with No Regrets!


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    As a young mom, I longed for some me time, some free time at the end of a day. Raising a son with special needs and two daughters was a 24/7 kind of job….like every mom! There’s no vacation on vacation, there’s no pats on the back from the children in those early years. Yet, when I look back over being a mom, ...
    3 days ago

  • Every bit of progress is a big deal


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    "One small consonant, one giant leap for Max-kind!!!" I posted on Facebook this Saturday. Max had just made a "k" sound for the first time during his morning speech therapy session with J, the speech therapist hes had since he was a baby. Max has all the vowel sounds in his repertoire but few consonants—m, n, the ...
    3 days ago

  • High Tech Jobs Suit People with Autism


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    For many parents of children with autism, what they will do when they finish their education is a big worry.  Thankfully some companies are realizing the value people with autism can bring to the workplace. One Fortune 500 company has hired people with intellectual disabilities and found them to be assets to their ...
    4 days ago

  • DYSLEXIA: 21 YEAR OLD PILOT FLIES HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD


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    James Anthony Tan has dyslexia. Despite this, the 21 year was able to get his pilots licenses from both the UK and Australia.  He has just completed a solo flight halfway around the world. Tan hopes to become the youngest solo pilot who has flown around the world in a single engine plane. Tan acknowledged that ...
    1 week ago

  • All In A Week


    Notes From The Frugal Trenches - A Downshifting Journey — Authority Authority: 128
    The week has been beautiful, not without its challenges, but beautiful nonetheless. We had a brief hospital visit where my son was diagnosed with tourette’s syndrome . And while I do occasionally worry about the growing number of special needs , there wasn’t a day this week that wasn’t good. The moments we ...
    1 week ago

  • Carers and caring.


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    The news this morning carried a story that general practitioners are calling for carers to be evaluated more frequently for depression. Today it is news that carers often neglect their own health as they focus on the person for whom they have caring responsibility. Tomorrow something else will be news and carers will ...
    1 week ago

  • Carers and caring.The news this morning carried a story that...


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    Carers and caring. The news this morning carried a story that general practitioners are calling for carers to be… View Post
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  • Play Therapy May Help ADHD


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    The Ultimate Guide to Making Friends is a program that is being testing on children with ADHD. The program aims to help children who have ADHD with social and communication skills and is being developed by two pediatric occupational therapists from the University of Sydney. The study to date has found the ...
    1 week ago

  • Roses & Thorns


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    After school every day, the kids and I play a game called Roses & Thorns. I ask them what their roses are(the good things), and what the thorns are(not so good things). Just the other day, my daughter, Elizabeth, who is 7, answered, “I had some thorns, but the roses overcame them.” Such wisdom at a young ...
    1 week ago

  • How to Catch a Rainbow Trout


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    Parker went to his end of the year class party.  The theme?  How to Catch a Rainbow Trout .  Okay, so that wasn’t really the theme, but fishing was the activity of the day.  Just a few minutes from our house is a fantastic public park with a stocked trout pond, complete with ducks and a grouchy goose. I’m so ...
    1 week ago

  • So I don’t always face it.


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    Yesterday when I went to get my youngest from the school bus, huddled into my coat, soaking wet and full of the self-pities due to my cold , I made the typically insightful British comment to the bus escort about the weather. “What a day!” I know it is hardly earth-shattering repartee but then why should that ...
    1 week ago

  • The Sequester Cuts Close to Home for NYC Seniors And Others


    Law Firm Newswire — Authority Authority: 148
    White Plains, NY ( Law Firm Newswire )May 10, 2013 - In New York, the sequester has affected a number of social services, including hot meal delivery for the elderly and at senior centers. The cuts have come as part of a package of across-the-board federal budget reductions that were supposed to be so onerous ...
    1 week ago

  • The Importance of Being An Advocate for Your Child


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    A recent seminar in Oregon discussed the importance of separating fact from fiction when dealing with people with autism. During this seminar, parents of children with autism spoke of the issues they faced getting a diagnosis and accessing appropriate treatment. At this seminar, one mother told her story. ...
    1 week ago

  • My Hearts Worries


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    Not a care in the world :) Far too often it feels like parenting has become a contest.  Who walks first, talks first, reads first, you name it.  Ive written before about how judgmental Ive been of parenting, as terrible as I feel now about it.  Even in the special needs and medical communities, it has ...
    1 week ago

  • My Buddy Noah


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    Realizing the importance of patience when serving kids who struggle with profound difficulties.
    1 week ago

  • 5 Ways to Help Your Child Take Frequent Meds


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    By Nancy Flanders This is a common problem in our home. My four-year-old, who has cystic fibrosis , takes 15+ pills a day and does 1.5 to 4 hours of breathing treatments every day. This can get old for a kid who wonders why no one else around her has to do this. Explaining to her that it is the only way to keep ...
    2 weeks ago

  • How to choose the right pet for a family with special needs


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    Did you know that the presence of guinea pigs in a room can increase social behaviors in children with autism? Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia recently published a study  demonstrating a significant measurable increase in talking, smiling, laughing, looking at faces, making tactile contact ...
    2 weeks ago

  • George (Rovers Dog Rescue, Essex)


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    George is a lovely and lively 9 month old boy, who is deaf. He needs a patient and understanding home, to bring out the best in him and to help him learn new commands
    2 weeks ago

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