I think there is a lot of truth in this one. Every afternoon when walking towards my daughter's school I literally say a little prayer that she had a day without her head hurting, leg hurting, stomach hurting, or her feelings being hurt because someone teased her about the way she talks. [...]
At a recent meeting in Sheffield (England), someone reported about a girl from Ireland and her mother. The report was that they were "legends". Who were they? Here is the first blog from this dynamic duo. There was a time when I would hear a voice in my head - I sometimes thought I [...]
I was not able to attend the NCSE (National Council for Special Education) Annual Conference this year (November, 2015). Anne Lawlor from 22q Ireland was able to attend, and has since been in contact with one of the speakers, Gina Grant. Gina has been very generous and has sent us the text of the talk. [...]
I guess I didn’t want to leave the warm cocoon of my mother’s belly because of all the problems in the world I would face with my health. That was evident when they found that when I exited finally the cord was wrapped around my neck. So life begins as a “blue” baby. And that’s [...]
I have known of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome for only 7 years but my experience has been an eye opening one! I used to get annoyed at the person who was taking too long at the checkout in a shop, or the person who didn’t seem to know where they were going and slowed me up [...]
St Micheal’s House in my opinion is a happy school for children with Down syndrome or any other kind of syndrome. The children are praised for what they do in their day-to-day work. They don’t have excellent written on their spellings; they don’t have A, B C’s on their report cards. They are praised for [...]
In this series of blogs I want to chat about a few useful writing tools for the literature review that I have come across - both from my time as a student and also from my job as an academic researcher. In this first blog, I want to start with a tool that helps [...]
For many people, their first experience of writing a review of the literature(s) is when they are starting a dissertation or thesis for their course of study. I have written elsewhere in blogs about various parts of producing successful literature reviews. This post is about figuring out if your review "works" - that is, it [...]
I really like the notion of "stickability". This term was coined by a very special friend of mine who was a Principal Educational Psychologist in the North of England. His team were known in the profession as the "FIat Cap Brigade". For those of you not aware of the millinery preferences of males from the [...]
Linked to the idea of the "golden thread" (have a look at that blog) is that of a "genetic link" between what you have reviewed in your Literature Review and the content of the methodology / tools that you will use to collect your data. You would be surprised how many times I have [...]
