Toddler
Dispatches From Speech Delay Island
My son is about to be evaluated for a speech delay and I’ve never felt so alone.
Health & Safety
The Stages of Special Needs Grief
A mom needs help and support for herself as she comes to terms with her son’s varied special needs diagnoses.
Health & Safety
Speech Delay: To Evaluate or Not To Evaluate
A mom is being told to have her toddler sent to a speech therapist but wants to understand the benefits of doing so first. Amalah has very strong opinions about this.
Parenting
When Autism Runs in the Family
A woman knows that autism runs in her future husband’s family. She’s thinking about the future already and wants to better understand Asperger’s in children.
Young Child
The Child Who Eats Too Little
A child has always eaten very little but now he’s fallen off the growth charts and isn’t keeping up physically and socially with his peers. What should the mom do when her pediatrician insists everything is “fine”?
Education
Navigating the World of Special Education Preschool
Helping parents who are looking into special education preschool options for their speech-delayed child.
Education
Pushing Back on a Pushy Therapist
Mom is in a sticky situation with a speech therapist who is insisting that her preschooler needs weekly therapy. But finances are very tight. Is there workaround to propose?
Toddler
Toddler Hearing vs. Toddler Listening
A parent (whose day job is as an occupational therapist) is trying to weigh some concerns brought up by her son’s caregiver his development against her own observations and professional opinion.
Toddler
Special Needs, The Second Time Around
How to prepare yourself for another ride on the Early Intervention roller coaster.
Toddler
Speech Delays in the Age of Coronavirus
Help! I think my toddler may be speech delayed. But also, we’re bilingual at home. How do I get them evaluated during the COVID-19 shutdowns? What can I do?
Education
Special Needs Services: Public, Private or Both?
A mom is getting increasingly more special needs diagnoses for her toddler and has been DIYing her therapies so far. She asks about the pros and cons of going through the Early Intervention process.
Education
A Commonsense, Non-Scary Guide to Your First IEP Meeting
My young child’s eligibility/IEP determination meeting is coming up soon and I’m nervous they’re going to tell me she’s caught up enough and I’m still concerned. How do I pushback, but nicely?
Toddler
All Talk, No Babble
Help! My toddler is very quiet and not even babbling. I am concerned that they should be evaluated sooner. Do you have advice?