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Praise Often, Complain Less

Everyone has their reasons to complain. I do it also. I complain about people, programs and events. However, I have made it a personal policy to thank and praise  publicly . Here is a letter I wrote about the school psychologist who recently coordinated a re-evaluation for Ben: Recently, our fourth grader, Ben McCall, underwent a re-evaluation for services. Sarah C. was the school psychologist coordinating the evaluation. I had never met Sarah before my first appointment with her to go over the process. Our last meeting was this past Friday and after almost three months of information swapping, meetings and email conversation, I feel that she is an ally for our son and most definitely a prized employee to the school system. Right from the beginning Sarah was interested in hearing about Ben – at home, in school and out in the community. Although she gave us many forms to complete, she allowed me to share stories that demonstrated Ben’s abilities. She read my blog to find out mo

Part 3 - Ben's Strengths Uncovered

If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2 , then catch up here. For a quick summary - Ben participated in IQ testing over the past several months with a neuro-psychologist and the school psychologist. Part 3 will review the results. After each of Ben's testing sessions with the neuro-psychologist's team, the doctor called me to brag about how well Ben did on each portion of the test. Many months have past since the actual testing and the feedback meeting. It has taken me a long time to write this. I was not sure how to approach it - it was a lot to take in for me both intellectually and emotionally. Digesting it all and then writing about it was a hard task. I started this post numerous times. At the feedback meeting, the neuro-psychologist gave us information about the tests, the scores and what they meant. I am not getting into the scores because they are just numbers. I don't think I could do justice to the meaning of the numbers and the test descriptions. If you want

Therapy Pool Fund Raiser

Last year, I met a family in South Carolina raising their grandchild, Aubri, who has special needs. We had a large wheelchair not suited for Ben and through an online exchange program, the grandmother came to our house to get the chair for Aubri. We connected on a few different levels and have remained in contact. This is the post from last year:  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Ellie, the grandma, contacted me this week about a fund raiser to help build Ellie a therapy pool. This is the link - feel free to read and share:  Therapy Pool Fund Raiser .