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To provide a place for parents and family members to meet and share experience, strength, give hope and awareness, to other families who have similar experiences raising children with ADD/ADHD, SPD, Anxiety, ASD, mental health diagnosis, developmental and behavioral challenges. Through sharing in this experience of raising these hard to raise kids, we grow stronger and more resilient.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Getting New Test Results for Hudson


Well, It's not like I am in denial that my son is autistic. I have spent the past year in services to help him in every way possible, OT, Speech Therapy, Play therapy, therapy preschool and even swimming. As I reflect on the last year since his diagnosis last October, I have gone through every stage of the grief process - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (this is when I am my most powerful) and after yesterdays test results, I am right back where I was before. It is so baffling to me. Only, I am now realizing, I was maybe in a bit of denial and now I am depressed. I think we (me and my husband) keep thinking that he is going to be just fine and fit right into a regular-ed setting, because we have seen so much growth in him this past year, but we still have far to go. His psychologist had the ADOS test administered. Which apparently, is the "gold standard" of autism tests. The good news is he is by no means the most severe on the spectrum but definitely scores at or just above the cut-off. With this test and his scores we can get him in the public special -ed system no problem, but I was hoping for more. By more I mean, where he just gets to be a regular kid in a regular class, with other regular kids. So, waaah! I know, I am whining. I just get weary. Don't you?

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Happy Holidays!


Happy Holidays Everyone!! We are really looking forward to our holiday socials coming up! It is a casual open house type event. Come visit and snack with parents who "get it"!
We will work on keeping the blog posted with new information and posts as much as possible. As I am sure all of you know this is an INSANE time of year, so bear with us through December!

Watch for a post this week, I am posting our Christmas Social story that worked really well last year!!

December 7th - Davis County
7-9pm
Davis Behavioral Health
934 S. Main St. Layton

December 14th - Salt Lake
7-9pm
The Sharing Place
1695 E. 3300 S. Salt Lake

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Lindsay