Angela
I am a Special Education teacher who blogs about my super-powered special needs family. My 3 year old has Prader-Willi Syndrome and my 5 year old has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Sensory Processing Disorder. The odds of these random genetic events occurring at the same time are astronomical. When you add our typically developing one year old baby boy to the mix, you have a very busy household!Our lives have too many appointments, too many school problems, and are generally too busy as we try to live life to the fullest.
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Category Archives: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
In praise of the OTs in our lives
Two kids with special needs in one family means we have a lot of therapists in our lives. Speech. Physio. Behaviour. The list goes on because we have at least two of each therapist, sometimes one for each kid, at … Continue reading
New Shoes
I was originally going to call this post something cute and funny, like ‘New Shoe Blues.’ I thought about the nearly universal tradition of buying ‘back to school’ clothes and shoes. I thought of humorous quips about shoes, feet and … Continue reading
Enough of the “What ifs” already
I have been “what if-ing” myself to death lately. Lest you think this is some kind of new swear word (which it very well could be, given our track record – check out these posts), rest assured it is not. … Continue reading
