http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog Special Needs for High Functioning Kids Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:07:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you have an Aspie, life tends to look like one Battle after another.  Sooner or later you will realize that you (as the adult parent) need to choose your battles.  These special gifts that God has entrusted us with cannot be treated as we treat NT (Neuro-Typical) kids.  Due ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=97 For years I was forever jealous of any of my online friends who were involved in a great church.  We had been looking and looking, but to no avail.  Finally, we found a church that is now our home!  A church that loves and accepts both our daughter AND our ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=92 A lot of us with Special Needs Kids have “Late Learners”.  Kids who are older, yet still learning to read.  I’ve got good news for you: Don’t give up, they can still learn to read! While trying to teach Ian to read, I came to the heartbreaking reality that there really ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=88 Well, if you are a Special Needs Child, color could mean the difference between understanding and not being able to read / process the symbols we call letters!  There are Dr’s out there that you can take your child to and spend LOTS of money.  But, if you don’t have ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=86 Last April, I went to our churches Women’s Retreat.  I had only been going to our Church for about six weeks and didn’t know too many people, but this one lady decided that she was going to be my friend.  Since our cabin (room) only had three of us, and ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=84 I’ve been rather quiet on here lately, mainly due to the abundance of stuff on my plate.  As some of you know, Dave is out of a job – but he hasn’t been sitting around idle!  Oh no!  He’s quite the task master.  Over the past couple years, I’ve been ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=82 "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Dragons, we all have them in our lives.  You know those people who just irritate us to do and say really stupid things – things that we will have to answer to God for ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=79 Lots of kids need to touch and feel things before their brains can “file” the information in a place that the child can go back and retrieve it when they ask their brain for it.   How in the world to we, as parents/teachers, accommodate this?  Here are some ideas: Puff Paint Sand ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=76 Ready for a “Meat and Potatoes” book on raising an Aspergers Child?  No fluff here – just the stuff you really need. Written by a Christian mom of two Aspergers Children, Phyllis Wheeler really knows – first hand – what works, and what doesn’t work for our kids.  She’s been where ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=74 This is my wonderful kitty Daisy!  She sits on my lap almost everytime I sit down to work on the computer. Ok, so I'm really just trying to figure out how to insert pics into my posts.  Nothing ever worked before, but all of a sudden, it looks like it might ... http://home.maggiemccormick.com/special_hearts_blog/?p=67