As far as my understanding of it, not Traumatic Brain Injury (unless caused
by one in the first year) but, it is a Brain Injury.
Elizabeth Thiers, OTR
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> From: Manring, Cynthia <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Fw: Right Hemi
> Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:06 AM
>
> Hi Trish,
>
> I am not a PT or DR but doesn't CP fall under Traumatic Brain Injury??
>
> Cynthia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Fw: Right Hemi
>
>
> Hi
>
> >> Fairfax county has 19,000 special needs kids
> >fairfax county virginia? they inflate those numbers. as to amber, can
you
> >afford to take her to a private ot? you should talk to jill jacobs
another
> >FC mom with two kids with CP.
>
> I doubt very seriously they have inflated numbers - they are the
> 12th largest school system in the US according to enrollment, have 13% of
> Virginia school children - with a total popluation of 152,000 and 234
> schools. And lets remember this is only the public schools - there are
tons
> of private schools - but I would be willing to bet real money - they have
> few Special Needs kids in privwte schools . Fairfax County has 943,000
> people in it according to county figures.
>
> According to their WEBsite - they Define Special Ed to cover -
> Programs are offered for children who have the following
> disabilities:autism, developmental delay (preschool), emotional
disability,
> hearing impairment, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic
> impairment, other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech
or
> language impairment, severe disability, traumatic brain injury, and
visual
> impairment.
>
> The Special ED web site is
> http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DSSSE/spedhome.htm
>
> No, I can afford nothing at this point. I am slugging away each
> month just to get out of the red and back to ground zero. I could take on
a
> part-time job again but then Amber looses out. I had Amber's ex-step
sister
> living with us but she split rather abruptly and she was contributing to
the
> household. My child support arrives at the whim of his most undependable
> unexcellency - just in time or just enough that I can't go to court. He
is
> leaving for Bosnia - today, and I have no contacts or anything. I am
looking
> into piano lessons for her (I have a 1910 upright grand in the
livingroom) -
> the Dr. who does the music at the Church ( yes, some Witches go to church
-
> the Unitarian Universalist kind that is) offers lessons - I just need to
see
> how much they are and how much I can swipe from the grocery money and
still
> have us eat. Maybe, I can strike a deal with him. As to school - I think
the
> solution is - a better way to type/write, more time on assignments or
> shortened assignments. I am going to compose a letter to the team of
> teachers - and make suggestions. Life lately has been a bit like trying
to
> keep up with a wildfire in a high wind.
>
> Brightest Blessings
> Trisha
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