Dear T
Nice to hear your daughter is making progress. I too am taking my 4 year old
daughter to a psycologist at NYU Medical Center. He has dealt with SM before
with success. I will pass on the info after we see him. There is a web site on
SM from NYU Child Study Center called "About our Kids". I found it very useful.
I finally convinced my husband that this is something that deserves serious
intervention. Everybody tells me "she'll out grow it". I wish that were true.
Even if she does, how old will she be when she finally "out grows" this? She
would have missed out of precious childhood years, friends and experiences.
Good luck,
Victoria

T <squeaky53095@...> wrote:
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say things here have been a little
better! I have found a wounderful pshchologist who is willing to
work with Brittany. He has never treated anyone with SM but is
willing to learn. He is trying to find as much as he can to read
about the theraputic aspect of SM, and also try to find other Dr.s
who have treated people with it. Right now we have had 6 visits from
the Dr. and we are doing play therapy. The doctor comes to the house
in Brittany's comfort zone (which is great!) She has no idea that he
is a doctor, he has her call him Bill. And Brittany thinks he is
mommys friend. Next week we will do one visit at home and one visit
at the office. Brittany has made progress this past week. She has
pointed, shaken her head, and helped with the game setups. Although
she has still not made eye contact she did forget for one minute that
he was there and softly said something to my mom. This is great!
But school is fastly approaching, and I have an appt. on the 27th to
speak with the teacher and principal. I am not sure how her teacher
is going to be (she was so nasty about her failing the readiness test
in April.) I am unsure what I want said or done, but I still have 2
weeks so I am open to suggestions.
On another note, I myself have been to a psychiatrist to help
with my frustrations of dealing with all of this. She is very
helpful and is trying to understand SM and how it affects the
family. She also gave some good advice, which I had put to use. I
had recently put out a newsletter to family and friends to explain SM
and how I would like people to react and respond to her. Everyone
has been calling her shy, and when telling them not to call her that
( and most importantly not in front of her) I would recieve the
nastiest looks! This upsetted me something fierce! All calling her
shy or quiet did was bring out the negative, and did nothing to help
Brittany! So with this letter I a hope that they are more
understanding and supportive in this situation. I have had some
feed back saying that they found it interesting and helpful!
Well I need to go but wanted to say I think this such a great
site and wonderful support group! Thanks for listening and remember
that "God would not give us what we cannot handle!" Even though we
do feel so alone at times it is nice to know that we truly arent!
TTFN Theresa


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