Dear readers of my Special Education posts, especially those who read about my special education topics (personal and close virtual friends not included):

You write comments in my posts, asking for help. I email you back, most of these were privately sent. Sometimes I answer immediately, sometimes I reply belatedly. This depends upon the availability of time I got.

You ask for these things and these are my replies:

• Therapy centers and services, and if possible somewhere near your areas. I do not readily give the contact number of the center I work for because that might be like fishing for clients. I even give numbers of centers where you can be most conveniently given services.

• Advice on how to deal with your children or for families that you know of have developmental problems with their children. I give these based on my experiences with my students. Children are dealt with differently, depending on their levels of understanding and behavioral issues. How I dealt with my students may not work with the difficulties that you are facing.

• You even give me your contact numbers, emails, home phones, mobile phones. More often, I do not publish these comments with your personal information. If I do, I remove your private and personal information details.

• You even ask where you can go for doctors or other professional who can help. I can only give the names of doctors that I am familiar with. Your preference is up to you.

• In all of these things, I feel great that I was able to help you. I do not ask for any monetary contributions nor public acknowledgments, in return I hope you tell me what has happened or what had not happened, that you somehow give me feedback when I ask you how is everything after you made the inquiry and after I have answered your questions.

That is all I ask and I hope its not too much.

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