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 [...]

  Let’s See-quence from Winter into Spring at an SBKM Open House! Starting tomorrow (Friday, March 22nd, 2013) I will be hosting an Open House on my Facebook page – you don’t need to bring anything but if you visit, you may win an app code or two. Developer I Get It has provided me [...]

    *Drumroll* – this post contains a giveaway for TWO copies of SpeechBox for Speech Therapy (an iPhone and an iPad edition) AND a video of the app in action starring the talented and wonderful Oliver! Summary – is the app worth buying? Yes, for parents who want the ability to practice speech sound [...]

  *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 [...]

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 [...]

  I’ve written before about So Much 2 Say and also been lucky enough to be given copies of the app to give away. I now have another 2 copies of the app to share with my readers but the codes expire on Thursday so we need to make this a quick giveaway! How do [...]

  I will be blogging about our experience at Surfer’s Healing camp, hopefully some time soon, but there are video clips from our day that I want to include in the blog and I need some time to edit those together. This post is to share a first for the boys and I – today, [...]

  All children can have trouble learning this skill but for special needs children it can be a particular challenge. Our children often have fine motor skill deficits or have problems with learning and remembering multi-step sequences. One of my friends on Facebook asked if there was an app or other resources she could use [...]

Contest is now over – winners announced here. Summer heat getting you down? It's supposed to get up to 36 C (97 F) here in Toronto tomorrow. That's without the humidex! Instead of sitting in a bucket of ice however, I have arranged an extremely cool giveaway of some great apps for you. Click here [...]

This is my second post regarding the process I went through in order to get Oliver and Owen placed within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The first post can be found here and is an outline of the services we accessed and steps taken up to and including school registration. This next step would [...]