Child Life On Call: Parents Of Children With An Illness Or Medical Condition Share Their Stories With A Child Life Specialist

Katie, Certified Child Life Specialist welcomes back Shani (a.k.a. Child Life Mommy) to the podcast.  Shani is a Certified Child Life Specialist who has a private practice in Northern California  and you can learn more about her community-based program in a previous episode here.  But, today Shani puts on her “mom hat” and talks about the journey of having a child with learning differences like #anxiety, #adhd, #dyslexia and #dysgraphia. She describes how: *She has had to learn to advocate to get her child the appropriate testing and IEP’s *Community plays an important role of getting the answers and support they need *The pandemic and virtual learning has been challenging for children with learning differences. The books Shani recommends are: Overcoming Dyslexia, The Dyslexia Empowerment, 8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD, Facebook groups, Understood.org, Barton reading programs, Wrights Law. You can follow Shani on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.  Child Life On Call is a community of parents and prof