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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM?"

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When life throws you a curve ball, you just need to laugh it off and enjoy the ride! My son is notorious for enjoying life as is.  As a parent of a differently abled child, people and situations can truly frustrate me. Today I dealt with a situation that truly made me think how we as parents can impact others.  Did you ever come across a parent who sits back making faces of disapproval when your child is clearly having a tough moment transitioning? Then she makes it known she has a child with autism, but he is higher functioning. Well, excuse me! If anyone should understand the difficulties we face with differently abled children, it should have been her. Her words and tone were not comforting, but actually they seemed a bit judgmental and down grading to my son. This is my rant for today. If you are going to do anything for any parent going through a difficult moment, at least be supportive or say nothing at all.  This little moment occurred at a different doctor's office today,
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Stimming

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Helpful Hints to Raising Differently Abled Children   Suzanne DeRemer is not only a poet, but also the adoptive mother of this very special young man with a duel diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autistic spectrum disorder. Adopting her son meant embracing the miracle of a child who needed a home. She wrote a poem, "A Child's Plea" to help foster children find homes, and this began her journey of wanting to adopt a child.   April is Autism awareness month. My son was born with Down syndrome at birth, and then as time went on I was told he also had pervasive development disorder. Often I would ask specialists if he had something other than Down syndrome when I watched him drop toys on the slate by my fireplace. He exhibited sensory needs at an early age with wanting to hear sounds, but yet being afraid of other sounds. I felt the purpose of dropping toys on the slate was to hear the toy make a distinct noise. Many times I was told that my son only had Down syndrome. As h
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Helpful Hints to Raising a Differently Abled Child

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Helpful Hints to Raising a Differently Abled Child      Suzanne DeRemer is not only a poet, but also the adoptive mother of this very special young man with a duel diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autistic spectrum disorder. Adopting her son meant embracing the miracle of a child who needed a home. She wrote a poem, "A Child's Plea" to help foster children find homes, and this began her journey of wanting to adopt a child.        My son has brought about a rising thunder within me. This means I feel destined to help by raising awareness and rising above discrimination, labels, and public and professional bias. All parents with disabled children need to rise and create a little thunder every now and then. A prime example of this would be at IEP meetings when our children need a voice to speak for them.      Raising a child with such challenges means that everything can be altered or changed. If we have plans to go to a movie, but my son can't handle the atmospher
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