Monthly Archives: November 2013
Anatomy of an IEP Meeting: Part 1
(I wrote this in the summer about Ruby’s IEP meeting at the end of pre-K. I sent it to the Motherlode blog of the NYT, and was rejected with the line, “sometimes things just don’t work out.” What better place
Anatomy of an IEP Meeting: Part 1
(I wrote this in the summer about Ruby’s IEP meeting at the end of pre-K. I sent it to the Motherlode blog of the NYT, and was rejected with the line, “sometimes things just don’t work out.” What better place
Speech Therapy Chicken
My mother got this awesome sesame chicken recipe from my father’s mother, Kitty. Kitty’s original recipe included MSG (“flavor enhancer”), even though she is, in my mind, the original healthy hip grandmother. (The only other person I’ve known to use
Speech Therapy Chicken
My mother got this awesome sesame chicken recipe from my father’s mother, Kitty. Kitty’s original recipe included MSG (“flavor enhancer”), even though she is, in my mind, the original healthy hip grandmother. (The only other person I’ve known to use
Stitches
My daughter does well in emergency rooms. She likes a captive audience. She knew what the people waiting in the Southampton Hospital ER on the night before the Fourth of July needed. They needed to be offered some blueberries by
Stitches
My daughter does well in emergency rooms. She likes a captive audience. She knew what the people waiting in the Southampton Hospital ER on the night before the Fourth of July needed. They needed to be offered some blueberries by
Speak for Yourself
I took a pretty big step today. My 5 year old daughter Ruby has Childhood Apraxia of Speech, which I think of as the most challenging element of her global apraxia, a developmental impairment that makes motor planning and coordination
Speak for Yourself
I took a pretty big step today. My 5 year old daughter Ruby has Childhood Apraxia of Speech, which I think of as the most challenging element of her global apraxia, a developmental impairment that makes motor planning and coordination
Why?
As a little girl I played with phone books. I used the small ones, the ones that feel like a novel and fit in a purse and are populated with rectangular ads of varied dimensions. I turned the feathery pages
Why?
As a little girl I played with phone books. I used the small ones, the ones that feel like a novel and fit in a purse and are populated with rectangular ads of varied dimensions. I turned the feathery pages
SOFT SCIENCE Notes from Kristen McConnell 