Autism

Routines, Predictability, and Just Getting to School in the First Place

February 14, 2011

[Thanks to Danette Schott at Help! S-O-S for Parents for including this as part of her February "Best of the Best" feature on school issues as they relate to invisible special needs! Go read all the great posts she's collected this month from some top notch bloggers, and while you're there check out the previous [...]

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I Still Have a Dream for Autism

January 17, 2011

This is a repost of something I wrote for Martin Luther King Day last year. I hope you find it meaningful. I humbly ask Dr. King’s forgiveness for borrowing from his eloquence and for the meager quality of my own words as I draw from his gift to us, one of the most transcendent speeches [...]

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Let Me Out of Here!

January 5, 2011

Yesterday we took the J-man over to do the last part of a research study we’ve been participating in. This was the big part – the in-person evaluation. Sometimes the J-man does OK with formal evaluations, but usually they can be kind of a mess. I think part of the reason is the transitions – [...]

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Like This

November 22, 2010

Another discovery from my writing file. When they ask, “How do you keep up with everything?” show them pictures of him smiling with his therapists and teachers, show them everything he could not do three months ago, and say, “Like this.” When they ask, “How does all this sensory stuff work?” take their hands and [...]

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Operation Orange – Time is Running Out

November 9, 2010

We’re in the last 36 hours of Operation Orange, my fundraising drive to raise money for Camp G.R.A.C.E., a local YMCA camp for autistic youth in my town. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! I’m throwing in a giveaway now, too! I’ll put the name of everyone who donates $15 or more [...]

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Operation Orange Fund Drive – Send Autistic Children to Camp, Freak Out My Hair

November 2, 2010

11/13/10 – Update! The members of Team Camp GRACE together raised $32,000!! Thank you so much to everyone who donated! 2011 will be an awesome year for these amazing kids! This is the first time I’ve done this on our blog, but I want to do something, shall we say, ‘colorful’ to help autistic children [...]

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Autism Beatitudes

October 11, 2010

I was skimming back through some writing I’d done a while back and stumbled across the following. Funny how you can forget you wrote something! I rather liked it and hope you do too. As with other things I’ve written, I wish to qualify this by saying that I’m aware I write from a parent [...]

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What do parents of autistic kids want?

August 17, 2010

We want to know that somehow, some way we are strong enough. We want to see what we are working toward and have the perspective and wisdom needed to get there. We want quality, clear, and accurate information because we have so little time and energy to think. We want to know that we’re part [...]

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