do any of your children have id bracelets?

September 20, 2006

Well for the last year I've been having thoughts that Auggie needs an

i.d. bracelet. He has moved up to a dx of misarticulation, and grammer

usage. However now he has hearing loss in his right ear due to a weak

and recessed ear drum. Plus potential hearing loss in left ear. For

the most part you can understand him Yay! But where do I go for an

I.D. bracelet? can anyone help. Thankyou

,

Jeanne here.

if you want to email me off list with your contact info and i will

send you a order form or here is a link to the website.

http://www.medicid.com/b-700-y.htm

more ID products

http://www.mypreciouskid.com/

September 21, 2006

Hi !

Below is a few archives on this topic which has come up quite often.

I too agree not to put too much info on the ID tag...

In a nutshell (and more below on tips)

" I posted a long time before that to have the following information

on ID tags

Learning to talk

Able to understand

Please call 123-456-7890

I would put " learning to talk " so that they knew he had some type of

speech impediment -and not that he was in shock or something when he

didn't talk. I would put " able to understand " so they knew he

wasn't mentally retarded or deaf -and wouldn't talk in front of him

like he wasn't there. And I would put our contact number (for

obvious reasons) "

Please do say yes to IDs!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~start of archives of archives on IDs

Hi everyone and Happy Father's Day!

I kind of recall someone bringing up recently the fear of their

essentially non-verbal child getting lost in a public place -but

couldn't find it when I searched just now. No fear -I have 2 cents

to add anyway!

Yesterday while we were at MGM Studios over by Lights Motor Action

and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, I saw something that may interest some

here. They had the machine they have at places like Pet Smart that

make dog tags, except they didn't call them dog tags, they were in

fun shapes with Disney characters and came in various sizes...and a

wee bit more expensive then the ones you can make at Pet Smart.

(start price was 10 bucks)

They had a photo of them being used as decorations/ID for shoes and

all, but as we all know most of us don't buy them for " fun " , and I'm

sure Disney too is aware of the more serious reason why those

machines are there and why we as parents will be attracted to them.

While most parents won't go to/or think to go to PetSmart for their

kids ID tags -they took away the pet aspect.

I don't recall seeing them before, nor did I notice them at the

Magic Kingdom, Epcot or Animal Kingdom but then again I wasn't

really actively looking for this tag machine. Just great to know

that this group isn't the one group of parents out there who need

creative ways to keep ID on our children in case they get lost!

Couldn't find anything about it online -so must be pretty new and

again don't recall seeing it before.

Here's another one I just found for those that don't know about this:

http://www.whosshoesid.com/

Here's some archives on this topic:

Re: ID tags

" What I would really like is to get a GPS implantable tag "

great minds think alike! Below is a helpful message about

IDs and various ways of going about this -as well as a message I

sent here awhile ago about when 'I' first came up with " lojack for

kids " in the toy industry and was told that was just crazy. They're

doing it for years now in pets -and guess what? It 'is' being

tested right now in people -but it does freak out many. Guess it's

too Big Brotherish for some (who don't know what it's like to be in

a state of horror if God forbid your 4 or 5 year old child runs off

at the mall and can't say he own name no less his phone number!)

To this day I'll never forget the day our family went to a wine

harvesting festival in NJ where you help pick the grapes -then take

part in a big party with food and music. Alba Vineyards does or did

it each year and it's awesome http://www.albavineyards.com

Tanner somehow wandered off from the group of us. It was our family

and some neighbor's and their kids too...Tanner was just all of a

sudden out of sight gone. One minute everyone saw him and the next -

gone. We couldn't find our little pumpkin who looked like a baby

cherub, our 4 year old who was essentially nonverbal. (This is the

fancy party I've talked about here where Tanner pointed to a plate

of cookies and said " doo doo doodie? " which was his way of asking

for a cookie.)

We were surrounded by endless fields of grapes and the winery with all

the

large vats and equipment, the sun was setting, and I felt horror

like you have no idea unless you were in this situation. I ran

towards the one exit out and shouted not to let any cars leave. I

wanted to check trunks (they didn't do that) We had everyone

looking and Tanner was found behind a vat. I guess one day we will

be able to look back on that and laugh -perhaps when he's an

adult. Right now it's still a memory that makes me feel sick.

Re: ability to know phone number etc.../ID Bracelets etc.

This topic has come up many times and with many horror stories as to

why to get an ID bracelet. This is why we have resources and

reasons as well as suggestions for ID bracelets in The Late Talker

book.

Vicki, may not need insurance to cover them. ID's don't have to be

costly to be effective -they can be -but in addition to the obvious

ID bracelets -you can use anything to 'make' an ID bracelet -

including the 5 dollar doggie tag from the local pet store attached

to a sneaker shoelace or something.

I do have an archive from a few years ago for those of you who may

or may not

have read The Late Talker. Since my kids

are now a bit older (and speaking of out of the box " IDs " ) I also

have a

suggestion for those of us with older children that works really

well -I recommend looking into it.

A few weeks ago I posted a story about how a child was lost at

Universal and how devastated he was -and how miraculously in that

crazy crowd of people I somehow found his mother.

/message/37902

That child looked to be around ten years old. Almost right after

that happened my husband went out and purchased two cheaper Nextel

phones http://www.nextel.com/ for our two boys who are now 8 and 10

years old. Programmed into the phone are all the emergency numbers

our kids would need as a just in case. They both know they are not

allowed to use the phone for anything but an emergency -but the

direct connect/two way or for those who don't know -walkie talkie

aspect -that's free no matter how much it's used. In addition to

peace of mind when we go to places like the theme parks now that

they can no longer get 'lost' Tanner has all of a sudden enjoyed

talking on the phone. Not that he didn't or wouldn't talk on the

phone before -but not much. Then of course there is the 'cool'

factor (something to think of when you have a child with a speech

impairment -even one like Tanner who has lots of friends and isn't

teased) Some of you may think doing this a bit extravagant, but

honestly after paying over 100 dollars an hour (!!) for just one

session

of therapy -the 30 or so bucks a month (!!) for security and

encouraging

more speech sounds like a steal.

Our two boys now have two other friends who have Nextel as well...I

think I smell a trend -someone just has to do the marketing -and not

much!

I tried to contact the inventor of http://www.petsmobility.com/ -

would love to help work on marketing for that concept for children

but he didn't call me back! Hmph. (and tried to secure the domain

name 'kidsmobility' but the owner of petsmobility already had but...I

did secure 'kidmobility' Anyway the inventor of petsmobility must

be thinking, like me and I'm sure others....just watch -you'll see

it in a few

years)

From: " kiddietalk <kiddietalk@...> " <kiddietalk@...>

Date: Fri Feb 7, 2003 9:08 pm

Subject: Re: ID Brancelets

Hi Carole!

A few people (including me) just posted some places to find ID

bracelets which you probably read right after you sent your message.

Another place someone suggested about a year ago was using the ID

tags you

can pick up pretty inexpensively at the pet stores which typically

allow you around three lines. You can then attach it to the laces of

the shoes

(near the toes)

I posted a long time before that to have the following information

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