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Back-to-School & IEP Tips

I looked my 10 year old in the eye just yesterday and said: “Michael, you know we have a mere 16 days left of summer”? It was hard to say and so much harder to believe.  Where did the summer go?  How is it possible that three months went like THAT?! But the truth is […]

August 22, 2016 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO SCHOOL ADVICE, BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, END OF SUMMER, IEP, IEP GOALIEP GOALS, IEP MEETING, ORGANIZATION TIPS, PARENTING, PARENTING TIPS, SCHOOL SETTING, SCHOOL SPEECH THERAPISTSCHOOL THERAPIST, SCHOOL YEAR, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS ADVICE, SPECIAL NEEDS MOMSPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPECIAL NEEDS TEEN, SPEECH THERAPY GOALS, SPEECH THERAPY IN SCHOOL SETTING, TEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDSTHERAPY SUCCESS, THERAPY SUCCESSES

Middle School Awaits

It is funny but just as soon as you get used to something, that something changes.  I am sure everyone can sympathize with that, right?  Well, this is how I was feeling about Elizabeth’s new school year, her last year in elementary school.         I had managed to figure out a few things: How […]

July 20, 2015 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, I BELIEVE IN YOU, IEP, MICHELE GIANETTI, MIDDLE SCHOOL, ORAL MOTOR THERAPYORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTSPECIAL NEEDS TEEN, TEEN

Overcoming the Unexpected

Learning something from a previous experience or mistake is a common thing in life.  We all do it.  But putting into action what you learned may take more effort.  I think this is common as well.  As I left off on the last blog, we were exiting second grade and a year that proved full […]

June 15, 2015 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, IEP, IEP MEETING, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, SENSORY DIET, SENSORY INTERVENTIONSENSORY PROCESSING, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, TALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS THERAPYTHIRD GRADE

A Mother Learns Many Lessons

Elizabeth is one of those children, lucky or unlucky, depending on how you see it, who has a summer birthday. These children get to wake up and automatically be off on their birthday, go outside to play, and enjoy their day but they don’t get to celebrate their day with classmates in the form of […]

May 18, 2015 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: BITE BLOCKS, DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, IEP, INCLUSION, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPYORAL STIMULATION, SCHOOL THERAPIST, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPECIAL ED, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDSSPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH THERAPY GOALS, SPEECH THERAPY IN SCHOOL

STEPPING OUT OF THE OASIS AND BACK INTO LIFE

It is funny or maybe not funny, but ironic that with a special needs child all the things you have in place and are working one minute can become things that need changed and adjusted the very next. I know the same can be said for life with typical developing children as I have two also, but the […]

February 3, 2015 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: APRAXIA, DYSARTHIA, DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, I BELIEVE IN YOU, LEARNING DISABILITYSENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPECIAL ED, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENTTALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS THERAPY