freezes up!

Reason that I open up this blog is because I have million things that wanted to write.

Then sitting in front of computer, suddenly I freeze up.

I don't know what to start, i don't know what to write anymore.

Sunflower and i had such a bad bad week last week.
Her frustration became more clear to anyone. It's like deja vu from last year.

I was told that she punched her classmate's stomach which was clear to supervisor who were watching during the recess but Sunflower insisted that she did not intend to do it, she did not even see the girl coming closer to her. They were playing TAG.

Few days later, I was told that she grabbed her friend's arm and squeezed.

Did you noticed anything?
Yes! she is trying to find her Girl friend. She wanted be with girls.

It has been peaceful because she gave up hang out with girls after she had horrible experience last year but what she really wanted is, she wanted girl friend soooooooooo bad.

She has been trying but it isn't working and I'm afraid that this may lead to another issue.

I also noticed her anxiety while ago. She washes her hand very often at school, not so much at home.
She avoids to touch sharing school supplies, such as pens.
She covers her fingers.

She is such a sweet little girl, I know she has so many things in her mind that I could not even pull that out to help.

Only things that I'm trying to avoid is not turn blame on her which isn't a same as spoiling.

She went through frustration through out a day. I don't think she needed me to tell her anything more.

she started to despise school, trying to find a way to avoid. She is just in 2nd grade.

If she doesn't feel comfortable with her learning style more things may add up.

She was finally given i sense(kind of digital hearing aids) which helps her to hear clearly, direct from her classroom teacher. She loves it and working positive way.

The school could have given to her much earlier this year if the IEP team carefully read the Audiologists recommendations. What a shame!

It's clear that she doesn't hear certain sounds or frequency that she hears biz biz biz what people say.

Isn't it frustrating to you? can you hear well if your eye glass was taken away from you?

This missing sounds is clearly causing her problem with READING.

http://www.actualites-medicales.com/une-anomalie-cerebrale-serait-a-lorigine-de-la-dyslexie/1306

This is a part of article from site abave, I think it is interesting.

A reduced sensibility of the left cortex

For many years the majority of scientists is assumed that dyslexia is caused by abnormal development of brain areas involved in the representation and processing of speech sounds (phonology).To study this, researchers from Inserm and CNRS showed brain activity in 44 adults, 23 with dyslexia, in response to a noise whose rate varied between 10 and 80 Hz Result: dyslexics showed a sensitivity reduced left auditory cortex to sounds modulated around 30 HzHowever, the response of the left cortex at these frequencies would be necessary to cut the word in language units can be attached to letters. This makes it difficult to quickly appoint a series of images.Anne-Lise Giraud, co-author of the study, explained to France Soir that dyslexics' sounds so finely cut that they can not associate them with the graphemes ".However, dyslexics show an increased sensibility to the amplitude modulations of sound beyond 40 Hz This would explain the lack of short-term memory. Indeed, continues the Anne-Lise Giraud neurobiologist in the newspaper, "If they cut more fine, they are more small packages and it clutters their short-term memory."

Happy New Year!

Ups! today is 01.12.2012.

I could not believe how fast the holiday has gone by.

Sunflower's IEP has made tepid progress but i rather not talk about until everything has sort of thought things out.

Beside complication of IEP, Sunflower started to appreciate a skating. We tried out right after Xmas holiday.

As Sunflower's birthday was somewhere around new year(New Year baby) so we wanted to make sure if she really could skate before we purchase her shoes.

So she tried. She was bit clumsy at first and having trouble standing up but after she went through 2 loop on rink. She kind of started to skate without holding a bar.

Now she is trying to go backward and dance with music.

My husband and I also purchased skate shoes to keep up with her.

You just don't want to sit by rink and wait for her, believe me it's so boring.

I haven't been skating for more than 20 years but I have to admit that I actually enjoying it as well.

I loved Ski when I tried for a first time, so I'm not sure why this things came natural.

I'm certainly not from snow country..... New discovery! so as my husband!

Dear Santa

Dear Santa: I don't want anything for this year but please give my daughter, Sunflower the ability to read and write. Please........give a massage to her IEP team to give her intense reading instruction for Sunflower to become a reader. please.. please.

The passions of Steven Spielberg - Parents Express - Montgomery News

The passions of Steven Spielberg - Parents Express - Montgomery News


Steven Spielberg understands what it is like to be a passionate young boy.

In fact, his mom, Leah, says that when he started his film career creating Super 8 movies around their neighborhood, one of his earliest attempts at blood and gore resulted in an explosive scene in which cherry pie filling was found seeping out of the kitchen cabinets for years.At the time, Spielberg's grandmother convinced his mom that he was destined for greatness and not the detention hall - and she was right!One of the most influential film personalities in the history of movies, is not only a dream maker, with a child-like heart, he is also a devoted family man. He also has a soft spot for his two recent kid-friendly movies, The Adventures of Tintin (Dec. 23) and War Horse (Dec. 28).

In War Horse, a boy named Albert (newcomer Jeremy Irvine), a British farm boy nurtures a horse named Joey as a pet and workhorse until his father sells the horse to the British army. Soon, Albert enlists as well and hits the trenches in hopes of finding his trusted steed. The horse is a catalyst for the drama and everyone he meets sees parts of themselves reflected in Joey.Tintin is about a plucky young reporter, played by Jamie Bell (Billy Eliot), whose adventures from a Belgium cartoonist starting in 1929 became a worldwide phenomenon. The story for the new 3-D, CG animated feature comes from three Tintin books, particularly the Secrets of the Unicorn.The noted director said he had the time of his life making these two new movies, and that he loves to pursue stories in which an ordinary boy can do extraordinary things."I've always been drawn to the empowerment of young people. I think it's so powerful when a young person suddenly has to rise above the circumstance he finds himself in, take it into his own control, and achieve something kind of wonderful. And I think that's what happens with Tintin and War Horse.

"While he is known for his body of work, including E.T., Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, he is a devoted family man with six children. He said he was proud to share both of these movies with his entire family.So how does he balance work and family, a pressing problem for most families today?

"The first thing," he said, "is that I am a good listener and I require my kids to be good listeners, too. It helps in the whole area of being more mindful and emphatic, towards others. My kids will say to me 'Dad, you know, you are spending too much time at the office.' Or, 'Dad, you know we did not see enough of you this week.' I will always drop everything at work and go to meet those needs. For me that's the priority."While he is certainly passionate about his movie making, Spielberg says he is also passionate about being a dad.

"My first child (Max, 25) was born in 1985 and my entire paradigm changed and everything from that moment on had to do with my kid's well beings, and my career suddenly became a second choice.

"As a parent, he was drawn to War Horse and the
Adventures of Tintin."I wanted to make movies that moms and, dads, and kids could see and they could each measure it from all of their own experiences.

"Yet, another surprise from Spielberg is that he was diagnosed with the developmental reading disorder dyslexia six years ago when he took his daughter for an evaluation."It is something that I have had since I was a child," he explained. "It was not fun to go to elementary school and having other students and teachers not understand my reading problems.

"Today, " [I have] accommodated my life to the challenges of dyslexia and I feel very proud of that. When you are a child you have to achieve a different balance when you find yourself to be dyslexic.

"It also appears there are no limits to what you can achieve when you are passionate about your pursuits. Just ask Spielberg and his family

Questioning myself.

questioning myself when did we stop the private speech therapy lesson for Sunflower???
Oh I believe that was around Jun in 2009.

She had been receiving the private speech lesson almost for 2years beside the therapy from a school.

The reason we stopped was two reason.

One was of course financially we could not keep up.
She was receiving 2 or 3 times a week which(therapist recommended) cost $105 each time, unfortunately despite our effort to negotiate and submit claim through out a year, the insurance company we had that time refused to pay for this expense. It's nearly $2000 for each month.

No wonder we are so broke!

We could stop this therapy but we really wanted her to speak! so we switched the insurance company next year, just to get cover for this expense.

We still had to pay out from our pocket 25% each session.

The second reason was, the therapy wasn't Apraxia targeted.

If you were paying for it you wanted to see improvement of her right? but I only saw very little and in fact Sunflower started to fit when she goes to therapy. That was the end.

It wasn't easy for 4 or 5years old girl to give up after school playtime with her friends and goes to therapy where it takes about 1hour each way.

She has been receiving the speech therapy from school 3 times a week. 2 in private and 1 in classroom.

Despite all these effort, if you've looked back her speech evaluations from school, it has been made very little change Do you know why? There hasn't been no targeting therapy.

Despite their find of articulation, working memory problem, there was very little targeted therapy in this area.

The speech therapy has so many different therapeutic style or way but generally either traditional or targeted. the school may not do this targeted therapy.