Last night it hit me with full force how these past two weeks have been a long needed victory laps for ghost child. Normalcy doesn't really exist when a significant amount of your time is spent on a child with special needs, especially in testing or diagnosis. If you are aware of your concerns, knowledge of the process, and aggressive in diagnosis, it takes about a year. Us, eight months of concentrated pushing. Years of voicing concern. We have arrived to healing. Now therapy with therapy homework. It can be all consuming and finding balance in a new normal is imperative. Pulling ghost child home was the best decision. I feel a lot less pressure in her care with flexibility and non compete with the school system on her needs. We are integrating her speech goals as opposed to shoving them in at the end of the day and trudging through them on weekends. I am watching her self regulate her modifications, gaining confide...
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