Understanding and moving forward

If anyone is even reading my blogs, I want to apologize. I guess you are supposed to write on your blog daily or weekly, mine have been very sporatic due to my work, 2 children, 2 dogs and certainly, a husband, all of whoM require my time. I will try to write more often. Ahhhh now understanding what was happening to my daughter and moving forward. Relief always comes when you understand what has happened and why it happened, now you have to figure out how do I move forward. Okay, school is moving forward, everyone has your email address to tell you progress, but there comes the "Summer Months"!. What do I do, do I send my daughter to the day camp she despises or do I find someone else. Well first you would think, let's ask her therapist, bad idea, they don't have a clue because they are not that familiar with Nonverbal Learning disability. That's okay, it's not that common. Okay, the BEST source of information, the internet!!! Yes, this was my mission for the summer. To my greatest amazement, there are good camps that help these children and I actually found one. Of course there are great camps for this disability in the midwest, but I'm on the East coast. I found a great one only 1 1/2 hours from our home. It was a summer program in an Academy, actually it was Franklin Academy. We had to go for an interview, always a great thing! My daughter fell in love with the school!. Camp was only for 2 two week programs, but this was good, and it was a sleep away camp. Counselors on staff, a 24-7 therapist on staff and it teaches these children life skills. (Okay this is bringing tears to my eyes because for a few years I thought there was no hope!) I know if you have a child with a disability, you go through alot of feelings for your child, ie: fear, hate, anxiety, and total frustration. I am living proof there is hope out there! I found a camp that would actually teach my daughter life skills and help her, best of all she was with children just like herself so she didn't feel alone. I never realized how important this is to a child. The first part to healing and moving on is to understand what is going on, and knowing you are not alone. Parents, you are not alone and neither are our children. This camp helped change my daughter's life. She had friends, she liked camp, she liked living away from home! Wow! You know the saying "Seek and you shall find", yup it's all there we just have to search for it! Until next time, have faith, search for yourself and certainly, DON'T GIVE UP!