Archive | social RSS feed for this section
grin

My Theory of Relativity

by jennifer on 05. Dec, 2009 in musings, social

Sometimes I cheer people up.   Not because I try to, but because sometimes people will compare their own stresses to what they assume are mine and will be drawn to ‘count their blessings’.  I suppose I should live and let live, but I am drawn to comment… (I find this type of post hard to [...]

Read full story • Comments { 12 }
friends

Friends?

by jennifer on 10. Sep, 2009 in social

(Great Wolf Lodge – Owen, Angus, M and T) When Owen was younger, my biggest wish for him was to have friends.    I created inclusive play environments, sent him to programs that could seamlessly accept him and his support workers and spoke positively to other children about how Owen was really just like them underneath.  [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }
best buddies – evan and josh

summer camp

by jennifer on 19. Jul, 2008 in family, social

(My poor little blog. Best water it before it curls up and dies altogether.) A happy post for a change: Owen was at summer camp for the past two weeks at a joyful little place called Adventure Valley. AV is not specifically a camp for children with disabilities; it’s a private, non-religious day program in [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
sleeping

brothers

by jennifer on 02. May, 2008 in family, social

Owen came home from the hospital almost 3 weeks ago, after a 5 week stay.  Following are photos of his homecoming with Angus.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

outings and activities

by jennifer on 28. Feb, 2008 in social

In my desire to establish a measurable, goal-oriented communication plan, I get a little caught up in structure. In methodology. In creating a reproducible, consistent set of tools. I fall into my own trap of intellectualizing and go so deep I completely lose sight of how to bring it to Owen in any kind of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
title slide – Owen

previously presented speech – ‘Emerging Communication’

by jennifer on 21. Feb, 2008 in communication - general, essays + speeches, social

Following is the speech/presentation I wrote and delivered for the Children’s Treatment Network – a new virtual therapy center for children with disabilities for York Region (the region north of Toronto). It is ‘virtual’ because there is no physical location – therapists are connected and referred by phone, email and web services. The audience was [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }