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Thursday Thankfulness
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It’s Thursday again, so that means it’s time to find three reasons to be thankful about the unique gifts of autism, Asperger’s or anything else that should come to mind! Here are my three for this week:
1. I am thankful for my son’s special education staff. It’s been a pretty good year and he’s grown so […]
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Thursday Thankfulness - a few days late
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The past few days have been insane, so I didn’t get to my Thursday Thankfulness. Here it is, and Happy Father’s Day as well!
1. I am thankful that my son is such a good eater with very few sensory issues with food. Especially now that he’s on Strattera, which is suppressing his appetite, it’s great […]
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Fifty-Two Practical Strategies for Asperger’s Syndrome, Non-verbal Learning Disorder and High Functioning Autism
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I spent the day at a fantastic lecture by Dr. John M. Ortiz, Ph.D., founder of the Asperger’s Institute , called: “52 Practical Strategies for Asperger’s Syndrome, Non-verbal Learning Disorder and Autism’. While he didn’t get to all of the strategies, he covered many, and I learned a great deal about Asperger’s that I […]
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Working Toward Inclusion
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kids playing in sprinklers - in swimsuits, not clothes
From the Oxford Compact Dictionary:
Include: verb 1 comprise or contain as part of a whole. 2 make or treat as part of a whole or set.
I give Gus’s school credit for making good attempts at being inclusive. There are two self-contained classes in the school, and they […]
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“Autistic and Proud” on Good Morning America
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image of Ari Ne’eman from GMA interview
This morning, Good Morning America aired an interviewwith Ari Ne’eman (who, by the way, is an adult with Asperger’s) of the Autism Self Advocacy Network and Kristina Chew of Autismvox. They spoke about how instead of being so preoccupied with finding a cure for autism, society needs to take […]
