Communication

I still haven’t found the app I’m looking for

September 6, 2010

There are now three of us at school who are iPod Touch addicts when it comes to frantically searching for an app that will help free us at least to some extent from the mountain of little picture cards, strips, and communication boards strewn all over our house and car. It’s either that or you [...]

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Shut Up

August 23, 2010

Last week we had a parents’ night at school, and discussed communication. The topic was so popular that they were a little overwhelmed in the childcare area, so I ended up leaving about halfway through and helping out. (I carried around the 2 youngest kids and sang to them. My arms still hurt 3 days [...]

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A Tale of Two Speeches

August 9, 2010

One of the inevitable things you do when you have another child after one who’s diagnosed as autistic is frequently compare the development of the two. You try not to – or at least not overdo it – because you want each of them to be their own person. I think we do a decent [...]

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If ignorance is wisdom, we’re all gods here

June 3, 2010

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin We have been people of extremes around here lately. I’ve been burning the candle on three ends with work projects and am at that stupid kind of tired right now. Mary has been going full on at work [...]

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The Light at the End of the Tunnel May Not Be an Oncoming Train

May 26, 2010

According to his teachers, the J-man is going through the Terrible Twos/Threes developmental stage. Since he is pretty close to five, it’s a little hard to deal with. He pushes our buttons in many ways, every day. From just being incredibly loud when Dale Jr is trying to sleep to outright physical defiance, he has [...]

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Leap Days and Our Children’s Unchartable Development

March 14, 2010

Child development books typically portray your child’s growth as a gradually, but steadily, up-sloping line described in neatly organized groups of milestones and checkboxes. Days like yesterday promote the idea that a book about autistic child development would be rather like taking a bucket full of checkboxes, strapping that bucket to a roller coaster, and [...]

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Autism, Meltdowns, and Sherlock Holmes

March 7, 2010

“When you remove the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes Meltdowns – or perhaps we should call them ‘strongly, vocally, and dramatically expressed opinions’ – have become an all-too-frequent occurrence around here lately. I’ve read many posts and heard many stories from parents of autistic children talking about their [...]

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I Have a Dream for Autism

January 18, 2010

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 in our history. All generations after him will be asked to tell about their dreams for our world. Here are some [...]

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