Monthly Archives: March 2020

What questions should we be asking?

Please note, I would never ask a therapist, teacher, ESP or doctor/nurse work during this unprecedented pandemic.  However something is happening to families whose child has special needs and we have to talk about it.  

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Bridget is very lucky. She has forged relationships from her first ever therapists (SPT, OT, PT) through her most current ones. Like parents, these therapists feel helpless during this pandemic that have left them home and our children without any (or limited) education and therapy.

Two of them that I admire most asked me recently to start a dialogue. How can they help us help our children. One previous therapist told me, I worked too hard with Bridget we are not going to let this pandemic break her. Continue reading

Special Education, homeschool style

Please note, I would never ask a therapist, teacher, ESP or doctor/nurse work during this unprecedented pandemic.  However something is happening to families whose child has special needs and we have to talk about it.

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I have a child who has lost all special education.

I am not an educator and I am not a Special Educator.

I am not a stay at home mom. I work full-time (yes, even now during the pandemic). Continue reading

We need a plan

Please note, I would never ask a therapist, teacher, ESP or doctor/nurse work during this unprecedented pandemic.  However something is happening to families whose child has special needs and we have to talk about it.  

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We are gearing up for online learning with Bridget. Her SPED teacher sent a few video links and set up up in Google classroom.

I played the video. An immediate shut down happened. We videoed the shut down and behavior that the video of seeing her teacher caused. (I am not going to share it to protect her teacher’s privacy). It looked like this… Continue reading

I lost 10 years

Please note, I would never ask a therapist, teacher, ESP or doctor/nurse work during this unprecedented pandemic.  However something is happening to families whose child has special needs and we have to talk about it.  

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At Bridget’s IEP meeting in the fall I warned the team that I wanted to begin now preparing Bridget to be as independent as possible. Continue reading