From Amy Antler (an intro)

June 28, 2002

New Member

Hi. My name is Amy Antler and I am delighted to be a new member of this

group. I live in Loudoun County, Virginia and I met Casten at a dinner

last year. After a brief conversation about my son Corey, 6 years old with DS,

she posted a message for me. My son has very low muscle tone and I was looking

for families that had experienced some of the same issues I had. I received

many wonderful responses from this group. I apologize that I did not respond to

all of them. I have a toddler, who at the time was not sleeping through the

night. She now has the hang of it. Now that I have a bit more energy, I am

looking forward to being involved in this group. I am mostly a stay-at-home mom

to my three children. I am a pediatric speech-language pathologist and have

been practicing for ten years. I have my own practice and do home based therapy

one afternoon a week. I also volunteer as a parent-to-parent coordinator for

our regional DS group, PODS (Parents of Children with Down Syndrome). I have

loved doing this. Despite all of my contact with clients and members of our

regional group, I have experiences regarding my son's health and development

that are not common. This gets a little lonely. From the responses I got last

year, it seems as though I'm not alone. I'm looking forward to re-establishing

contact with some of you and finding new friends who might have some advice and

support.

Amy

mom to Corey (6 with DS), Leah (4) and (19 months)

amycantler@...

--- Amy Antler

--- amycantler@...

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