disabilities OT
From: Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddessattbi.com)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:56:01 -0700 (MST)
Sharon, that's exactly right.

Fortunately, he's now doing much better and I expect him to do all the
normal things as well. That brings it's own worries!

Liz

> 
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 06:19  AM, Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:
> 
>> All I can say is that I
>> was unable to articulate what was happening to my son.
> 
> This is typical of parents of children with learning disabilities.
> This is particularly difficult if it is the first child.
> 
> A friend said the minute her second baby was put in her arms she knew
> he did not have the perceptual and processing problems her first son
> had. After years of being treated as a bad mother and believing she had
> in someway irreparably damaged her first son by failing to relate to
> him, they were able to get the right help -- a series of different
> cognitive approaches to develop various brain functions. Her child
> could not visually connect, much less read, and was thus afraid to be
> more than a few feet away from his mother. Unlike being blind, he was
> reacting to confusing visual signals. He is now in one of the best high
> schools in Manhattan and free of detectible disabilities, cognitive or
> emotional.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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