Just a couple of images that I felt floated to the top of the attempt to keep the paper above water in the holiday story scrum of recent weeks.
A sportrait. Grace Tinkey is a formidable middle distance runner in our area. She always makes the best athletes of the year list at our paper. As such, coming up with new ways to shoot her is a challenge. Here was this year's attempt.
One more Christmas image before we bah humbug into the year. The police in Macon, GA do an annual holiday party complete with a toy raffle and Santa Claus. Here a little girl who had her number drawn picks a brand new bike. You think she'll remember the light in that room?
Finally, the first baby of the year in our coverage area. Happy parents, sleepy baby. Maybe there's a connection?
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Special Needs Child Care
Heather Duncan has a lengthy look at the trouble the parents of kids with special needs have finding child care in Middle Georgia. Link to story here.. http://tinyurl.com/2eyl4ru ..
In shooting the story, the images divided into two separate streams. Some of the first stream, images from a daycare center for medically vulnerable children, ran in the Telegraph and macon.com. The other stream, which went unpublished, I'll share here.
William Meelaphsom is a nine year old autistic boy. According to his grandmother and primary caretaker Marcie Meelaphsom, she needs the help of both William's mother Mara and Andrea Stone, a home health nurse who has been with William since he was 3, just to keep up with her grandson.
William has little fear for injuring himself and is largely nonverbal. Here Andrea Stone, left, Mara Meelaphsom, right, and Marcie Meelaphsom, in the mirror, manage to get William out the door and on the way to speech therapy.
The speech issue seemed tough for William. He has things to to say, but just can't easily communicate them. Here Marcie goes to great lengths to get William to explain why he is upset. Direct eye contact and some signing looked to be important tools.
Andrea Stone, William's home health nurse, is incredibly devoted to him. By her own accounting, she has spent most days over the last six years with him. While following her car from the Meelaphsom's home to the therapist's office, I saw her carrying on a conversation with him, pointing out animals on the side of the road, keeping him company. I'm sure it goes deeper than good company. Here they wait together for William's speech therapy appointment.
This is the sort of care that kids like William, who benefits from good care in his public school, still need in the home. Hey, the parents need it, too. Raising kids is hard. Raising kids with medical conditions that the doctors themselves only partly understand has to be exponentially harder yet.
In shooting the story, the images divided into two separate streams. Some of the first stream, images from a daycare center for medically vulnerable children, ran in the Telegraph and macon.com. The other stream, which went unpublished, I'll share here.
William Meelaphsom is a nine year old autistic boy. According to his grandmother and primary caretaker Marcie Meelaphsom, she needs the help of both William's mother Mara and Andrea Stone, a home health nurse who has been with William since he was 3, just to keep up with her grandson.
William has little fear for injuring himself and is largely nonverbal. Here Andrea Stone, left, Mara Meelaphsom, right, and Marcie Meelaphsom, in the mirror, manage to get William out the door and on the way to speech therapy.
The speech issue seemed tough for William. He has things to to say, but just can't easily communicate them. Here Marcie goes to great lengths to get William to explain why he is upset. Direct eye contact and some signing looked to be important tools.
Andrea Stone, William's home health nurse, is incredibly devoted to him. By her own accounting, she has spent most days over the last six years with him. While following her car from the Meelaphsom's home to the therapist's office, I saw her carrying on a conversation with him, pointing out animals on the side of the road, keeping him company. I'm sure it goes deeper than good company. Here they wait together for William's speech therapy appointment.
This is the sort of care that kids like William, who benefits from good care in his public school, still need in the home. Hey, the parents need it, too. Raising kids is hard. Raising kids with medical conditions that the doctors themselves only partly understand has to be exponentially harder yet.
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