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What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 1)

February 20, 2009

Many times over, our “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?” post is the most read article on this site. It’s also the post people most often cite as the reason why they write us and become regular readers of our blog. We are gratified by your response to our story about our son and hope all [...]

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Parent-Teacher Conference

December 17, 2008

Didn’t those words strike fear into your heart as a kid? Even when you KNEW you had been pretty much perfect the entire year? And that you were already making straight As in everything? Yeah… it’s worse for the parent. Maybe especially for the parents of a special needs child. We knew how awesome the [...]

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Peaches – Epic FAIL!

November 14, 2008

You may have already heard of this, but when your kid has significant feeding and sensory issues, one rule for introducing a new food is to try it 10 days consecutively, typically once a day. They will probably fight and gag and carry on at first, but if you picked a reasonable food to try, [...]

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Daddies, Mouses, Social Interaction, and a Dash of Zorro!

November 1, 2008

One of J-Man’s favorite words lately is ‘mouse’ (mow-muh – as in ‘ow’ not a long ‘o’), thanks to the new Best Book in the Universe (TM), The Napping House, which he has completely memorized. We read it before his bath, and he could pretty much recite the whole thing to me at this point [...]

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Bathtub Artist

July 17, 2008

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Sorry to be light on posting the last few days. We’ve all been feeling under it this week. I’m also working on a few improvements to the blog, which I’ll hopefully get done this [...]

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Houston, We Have Pretend Play!!!

July 9, 2008

In one of those make-my-day moments, during speech therapy J-Man actually fed a bear with an empty spoon after ‘dipping’ the spoon in an empty bowl. So nothing in the bowl or on the spoon, and – shocking newsflash – stuffed bears don’t eat! It’s an abstract, non-literal event! And this is a kid with [...]

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My Name is (WHAT?)

June 13, 2008

The J-man has a new and exciting talent – the ability to say a whole phrase. That phrase? “My name is ‘J-man’!” It goes like this: Mama: My J-man: muh-muh J-man: na-na Mama: name J-man: i-i Mama: is J-man: na-na! Mama: ‘J-man’! [We assume you know that neither 'na-na' nor 'J-Man' is his name, and [...]

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Your Moment of Zen – Pictorial Cuteness Edition

June 7, 2008

Took this one this morning during the walking around part of his breakfast. Say Cheese Toast! God, he looks more and more like Mary.

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