Small But Kinda Mighty

  The doctors pronounced Gavin Leong dead on Sunday night, April 14th, his mother's birthday. He had just turned five and a half last month. We knew it was coming after his mother, Kate, posted Without Ever Uttering a Word on her blog Friday night, but it was heartbreaking nonetheless. When I say 'we' I [...]

    If you’re working with a child on building spelling and reading skills then you should definitely check out the apps from Reading Eggs, brought to you by the same folks responsible for the Reading Eggs website. Currently their apps are all on sale with a price drop from $2.99 to only 99 cents [...]

    You may recall that I was recently nominated for the Circle of Moms Top 25 Tech Moms list. The results were announced tonight and Small But Kinda Mighty finished in first place! I like lists, so here are my thoughts in bullet form: First, congratulations to the rest of the Mum-run sites that [...]

  *The images used in this post are of Privilege Denying Dude. You can find out about him at Know Your Meme.* Earlier this week, Autism and Oughtisms (who I've referred to as A&O from now on) published a blog post called The Privilege Game and as I read it I found myself disagreeing with [...]

  *This weekend only* February 2nd and 3rd, all three ‘Bugs’ apps from Little Bit Studio are only 99 cents each! These apps are exceptional value at their full price of $2.99 so if you don’t yet have them, download them NOW if you have children, work with children or were once a child. These [...]

  So many blog posts, so little time! I had to make time however to ensure all of you are aware that Choiceworks has dropped in price to only $4.99. I have no idea how long this price drop will be in effect so if you don’t yet have a copy of this Visual Support [...]

I’ve tried more than one different type of children’s label, you know, the things you put on their clothes, shoes and all their other stuff to prevent it from getting lost. This was the first time I had tried Lovable Labels and I have to say, they live up to their name, I’m in love! [...]

  *trigger warning* there are some phrases and pictures in this post that some of you might find disturbing. I’ve had a draft of this post in my inbox since September but it’s been percolating in my head for even longer than that. I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I wrote my [...]

  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about iPads and screentime. Parents concerned about screen time will often state that they prefer their children to play with educational rather than purely ‘fun’ apps. I’m going to disagree with that a little, at least as far as my developmentally atypical children are concerned. [...]

For those of you who aren’t aware, The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest online news site and also its highest circulation newspaper, is running a series of articles at the moment under the heading The Autism Project. To be honest, I haven’t been following it religiously. At the risk of sounding like Sarah Palin, my expectations [...]