Apraxia

Car-oling, True Gifts, Some Bragging, and Thoughts on Hope

November 28, 2008

I have one absolute law about Christmas – absolutely no Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. I believe in doing one holiday at a time, doing that holiday well, and then moving on to the next one. But once Thanksgiving is over, Christmas music plays several hours a day at our house. We’re totally [...]

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A Few Minutes Back on the Main Road – What is ‘Normal’ Exactly?

November 24, 2008

There is that in me – I do not know what it is – but I know it is in me. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the [...]

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My God, He IS Reading! (Special 200th Post Edition)

November 23, 2008

[Another event so good it requires two posts!] We celebrate our 200th post with a monumental achievement by the J-Man. Even though we were quite skeptical before, he really IS reading words!! We pulled out these ‘sight words’ cards we have, which are basically just flash cards with one word per card and nothing else [...]

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Roy G. Biv

November 23, 2008

[Another event so good it requires two posts!] So this morning, the J-man and I are hanging out downstairs, when he goes into the other room, and brings me a set of flashcards, still in the box. Yes, we have many sets of flashcards! On the front of the box was a representation of one [...]

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The $64,000 Question – Is He (Dare We Say It) Reading?

November 17, 2008

Now I’ll be the first to admit that something this significant requires equally significant evidence to convince me this is really happening, but there’s at least something interesting going on here. J-Man has a picture book – one of those baby-oriented ones with one picture per page. Over time, he’s enjoyed looking at these sorts [...]

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Do It Yourself at Do2Learn

November 15, 2008

If you’re trying to figure out the ins and outs of picture schedules and picture boards, get some actual pictures to use, get a home learning area or classroom set up, find some ideas for home art projects, come up with cheap but good learning activities, or keep saying to yourself, “is there someplace I [...]

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Achin’ 2 – Electric Croup-aloo

November 10, 2008

The Croup has landed on the Flashlight house. Man I was starting to feel bored, lazy, and complacent so it’s a good thing this happened! Feel the sarcasm oozing from every pore! And even better is that there really isn’t a dang thing you can do about croup except maybe crank up some humidifiers. And [...]

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Breaking News – Other Kids Have Names!!

October 24, 2008

Yesterday we discovered that those other little things in J-Man’s preschool that move around and do stuff are actually people! Like, children people! And they have names!! If you’re new to this whole autism thing, you may be saying “Huhwuh?!” And here’s our learning moment du jour – It’s not uncommon for autistic kids to [...]

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