What is a special need? Well, we will soon find out in our family. My beautiful daughter, Quinn is 3 years 9 months old and I just received the paperwork for an IEP/IFSP evaluation. Step one. Individual Education Program, and Individual something Service Plan are the acycronyms for what exactly is my concern, and the concern of Child Development Services with Quinn? I wonder what the acronym is for sleep deprived mother of two with 'special' emotional needs herself and her family. Oh well. And so it begins.
Quinn is a bright, vivicious, beautiful vivid little girl who had a hard and terrible birth, and probably the worst first 5 days of her life. I worried about this day, and here it is. All the knowlege I had from working with children with autism and developmental disabilties has brought me to this pinnacle where I look out upon the horizon, and realize I have no idea what to do with my own child, and I am scared. No one else in my life seems to be, and I suppose I ought to hide the irrational parts of my concerns from Quinn, but they have seeped into daily fibre of my being...as much a part of me as all of parenthood has been from day one. Worst fears realized? Hardly! Watching a snowball coming down the mountain towards your child and possibly turning into something else, harder.
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