Tag: Daycare
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Help the parents too: Late diagnoses for parents
…or all the work a child does at therapy amounts to very little. A very real barrier for families is getting late diagnoses for their grownups when all the professional focus and time are on the kiddo.
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Working toward change even when change is scary.
Maeve’s last day with the Autism and Behavior Center was planned and yet I was a mess. Jeanne also graduated from ABC last summer and I was a mess then too! We never lose our team of psychologists, super therapists, doctors, and caregivers, but I just wish we could be keep everyone we care for…
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Really? Autism? But she’s not that bad!
More than one well-meaning person has said this to me. Having autism, living with ANYTHING, does not equate to a bad or naughty child. No child, no person, should have to be in such a bad place before receiving help. Nor should there be a blatant severity threshold to receiving help. Jeanne was triggered beyond…
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Silver Lining: Our daycare team helped us find professional help by kicking Jeanne out.
Okay, that is a bit confusing. By daycare asking Jeanne to leave, that move gave us a heavy, powerful fact in getting healthcare professionals to listen as we continued our battle for getting help. We continued to send two of our three kids to the same day care. We love the daycare team. We respect…
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