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How to Tend to Special Needs Child on Thanksgiving

Raise your hand if you cannot believe we are one day away from Thanksgiving, the official unofficial beginning of the holiday season. I feel like I just shut my door at the end of Halloween and then … BAM, we are talking turkey, stuffing, days off and then … gulp … Christmas. I try to […]

May 11, 2018 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
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5 Tips for “Conference”

If your school is anything like ours, you are nearing the coveted time called conference night. You may have already had yours. I used to solely rely on these times as my time to communicate with Elizabeth’s teacher. But as we all know those 20 minutes or so, given while other parents are lining up […]

November 25, 2017 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CONFERENCE NIGHT, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT

Some of the Best Presents Cannot Be Put in a Box

“That will be five dollars to get into the game.” Weird how those ten words can make me think. Okay, perhaps you might need a bit of background information here. I heard those words as I entered my ten-year-old son’s basketball game this past Saturday. I had not heard those words since last year’s basketball […]

December 12, 2016 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
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Interning in Advocacy

I left everyone last month by saying that Elizabeth was going to school!  What an accomplishment for her and her strength. Yes our little Elizabeth is in school.  Everyday of every week she is in school.  She has a great intervention teacher and a very nice inclusion teacher.  The inclusion teacher is the one who […]

March 31, 2015 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, SENSORY PROCESSING, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPDSPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, TALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS THERAPY

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

I BELIEVE IN YOU: ELIZABETH INTRODUCTION

My name is Michele Gianetti and I am a mom to three wonderful children, gifts from God is what we call them.  But our second child Elizabeth is the one who changed our world the most.  She has special needs…specifically Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and dyspraxia.  Our family has been on quite the journey since […]

March 19, 2014 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, I BELIEVE IN YOU, MICHELE GIANETTISENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD

Ask A Therapist: Nutritive Feeding for Charge Syndrome

I have a 4 year old student with CHARGE SYNDROME. He has minimal intake and could be looking at a feeding tube if this declines any more. Mom is totally fighting with him (holding one hand with her mouth, the other with her non-feeding hand and then spoon feeding with the other!). Feedings take at […]

August 14, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, CHARGE SYNDROME, FEEDING TUBE, FOOD INTAKE, LORI, LORI OVERLAND, NUTRITIVE FEEDING, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR SKILLS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPOON FEEDING, TUBE FEEDING