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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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What Is the Purpose of this Medication?
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Gus has been on Strattera for about a month now, at three different dosages, currently 25 mg per day. The first two levels made him a bit quieter, more subdued, and wore off around dinner time when he would start bouncing off the walls, I guess to make up for lost time. His appetite had decreased […]
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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 […]
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Thursday Thankfulness
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I’m borrowing this idea from a good friend of mine. It’s very easy to get caught up in the trials, difficulties and day-to-day drama of raising any kid. Throw autism into the mix and things can get downright nutty some days. There are plenty of times I write about wanting to rip my hair out, […]
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Sensory Integration - Try a Little Music
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My son has very sensitive hearing. When he was in Early Intervention, his Occupational Therapist tried AIT or Auditory Integration Therapy with him to prevent some of his meltdowns. Auditory Integration Therapy is a method that uses music modulated to remove different frequencies at random throughout a half hour CD. That was a particularly rough year - […]
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Social Progress
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My son typically does not play with other children. He may play if there are one or two, one being his sister. More than that, and he tends to head in the other direction. But yesterday at a birthday party, he was squished into a small sandbox with his sister, three other kids and a […]
