Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Watching Dino relax is like watching a hummingbird hover in the air. He might be in one place, but he never stops moving. This means that he often drops things, spills food and drinks, tips out of chairs, or even worse, crashes the whole chair to the floor. We have tried the […]
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Photo by Wayne Lee-Sing on Unsplash The last several years of the pandemic have been rough on everyone. For me, my mental health and physical health have both been in a steady decline. I have never been an active person, but when I worked part-time as a teacher I was on my feet three days a week all
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Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash IEP meetings can bring out a cold sweat in me sometimes. Worrying about how my children are progressing, wondering if they will want to cut services, and hoping I can advocate for another year of what they need. When I first began my journey as a parent in the special education system
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Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash I have my BA in psychology and I was very serious in my undergraduate studies. My passion was for research. One of several labs I worked in was studying the mere exposure effect. The mere exposure effect is the idea that just by seeing, hearing, or tasting something again and again you
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Photo by Amy Treasure on Unsplash My daughter cannot play the game telephone.She cannot hear anything underwater.I cannot whisper secrets to her as she goes to bed at night.Lunchtime at school is extremely difficult for Roses. Some obstacles we have not been able to figure out how to overcome, and this means I have to take a moment.
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Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash People were in and out of our room constantly. Roses was a bit of a celebrity in the hospital. Even the person who brought me my meal told me he had heard about her hair. She had a good two inches of thick blonde hair when she was born, and of course,
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