Swapna, Updates on the Kids - Page 3

I wish you a billion a trillion an infinite such kisses from the lil un.

Love you loads,

Padma

Mahika, I'm so pleased to hear about your son giving you sugar over the weekend! :) The first time Rish kissed me was a very special memory, and somehow by a twist of fate/co-incidence, my husband just happened to have the camera in his hands at the time. So, I have a pic of Rish pulling my ears and hair to his little baby face (he was 3 & 1/2 at the time) and smacking a wet one right on my mouth, in a frame that says "I Love Mommy", which I keep right beside my bed. It's the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning that I see every day! :)

Never mind tantrums and all the hard days or trying times we go through, parenting these little angels, I' ve always said they give so much more to us than we could ever give them in one lifetime of being their parents. Just watching my son interact with a dog makes my heart melt, to see him actually grasp a concept for the first time, the wonder and understanding in his little eyes... there are countless little tiny insignificant little everyday things that he does which are just priceless experiences to me, and he is really an invaluable gift God gave my husband and I.

Take Care All! :)

Swapna

@ Mahika: I'm sooo happy to hear that your son gave you a kiss for the first time! I hope many more are to come. I can understand why you got so emotional about it.

@ Swapna: You're so lucky to have such a cute picture of you and Rish by your night stand! 😃

Thanks!

Swapna

I remember in TX that we were told when we were looking to get speech for Rish that if he was classified as having a developmental disorder as opposed to being on the Autism Spectrum, it would hurt his chances of getting private speech. Your son must have been classified as having ASD when he received his initial diagnosis right? If so then the insurance co.'s cannot claim that his is a developmental disorder to refuse services. Maybe you can look into that angle with them.

Also, there is a place in Plainsboro called Eden Autism Services that may be able to give you advice/help when it comes to getting therapy. They also advise the WW-P school district on classroom protocols for their autism classrooms. Their website is: http://www.edenservices.org/. Hopefully you'll be able to get a hold of some way to get help or advice on how to get your son more speech services. Let me know how things go, I'm praying for your son to get the services he needs.

Take Care,

Swapna

You would not believe the crap that insurance companies come up with to get out of paying for services for people!!! I've been dealing with them for almost 7 years now since my Rish was first diagnosed at age 3 and a half! I hate them to the core, or rather the penny pinching execs who run them, having taken our premiums and ignoring the fact that we pay through the nose to get help for our kids, they still find all sorts of loopholes to use when it come to getting out of paying for services. I have friends back in TX who've actually had to resort to legal action to help their kid get speech therapy from insurance companies, and are still going through the whole nightmare, most likely with no positive result going to happen for them! After all the companies have a much larger and more expensive set of battalion of lawyes at their disposal... sad to say, but the ways of the world are such unfortunately :(.😡 😭

Swapna

I really do hope that in the near future that children with special needs are better represented in general!

My mother doesn't have insurance issues because my brother is not that in need of help, but she had similar problems with the school systems. They won't test or label him properly because he's perfectly functional and able on the outside. They just say he had ADD, but we all at home know the problem is deeper than that.

People just don't really care when the matter doesn't concern them, and it's really sad. If people don't help each other, then who will?

Wow....I really went waaay too deep into all those things, but it's things that I think about on like a daily basis almost in one way or another.

I completely understand what your mum must have gone through. Asperger's Syndrome is on the Autism Spectrum and is an even milder form than PDD-NOS is but ti also frequently is mis-diagnosed as ADD or ADHD. Kids with AS also have a lot os issues and generally also have speech and OT issues that need help, even though they almost always are verbal kids.

Is your brother out of the school system now?

Swapna