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Interrupting the Loop

June 17, 2009

For quite a while now, the J-Man has been a Lego-maniac. We see this as a very good thing as he wouldn’t touch building blocks of any kind for forever – we suspect for a variety of sensory – particularly tactile – fine motor, and other motor planning/spatial relating sorts of issues. Like many other [...]

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When the Only Thing Routine is the Lack of Routine

June 2, 2009

It’s hard to comprehend that Little E is four weeks old today!?!? Time flies! Perhaps it particularly flies when you’re too tired to understand the concept of time anymore. We do seem to be getting some aspects of the baby’s sleep to a better place, so we are starting to get a bit more sleep [...]

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Shining More and More! Quarterly IEP Report

March 31, 2009

In our last IEP goals recap from last quarter, the J-Man had a great nine weeks overall and showed great gains. This past quarter just ended last Thursday, and our little superstar continues to make great strides toward what we thought were some pretty ambitious goals for this year. As a refresher for those curious [...]

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What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 3)

March 2, 2009

And welcome finally to Part 3! This is the continuation of our series “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now?”, a journey through what’s happening these days in the life of our autistic 3 1/2-year-old son and sequel to our very popular original article, “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?”. I meant to write this sooner, but [...]

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Fun With Folder Games!

January 14, 2009

Because 99% of the stuff in a toy store isn’t really made with the learning needs of autistic children in mind (not likely gonna see “For reading levels 6 and up and speech levels 1 and up!” on a toy) and because there’s no telling what the J-Man will play with and what he won’t, [...]

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Stimming in a Winter Wonderland

December 22, 2008

I can already tell this is going to be a challenging break from school. The J-Man spent much of his day finding various ways to stim. Clearly being away from the structure of school did not sit well with him, even though last week you could tell he was really ready for a break from [...]

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Climbing Up the IEP Goals Ladder – “What a Great Quarter!” Edition

December 17, 2008

We had our end-of-quarter Parent/Teacher Conference yesterday, and we all celebrated how great the J-Man is doing in school. Since IEPs are all about annual, specific, measurable goals, these four-times-yearly conferences with the teacher are about seeing how he’s meeting the measurements established by those goals. This allows you to make mid-course corrections as needed, [...]

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Unwrapped!

December 15, 2008

Forgot to mention yesterday that J-Man gave us a great gift this weekend. This goes under the heading of ‘doesn’t sound like much to most of the world, but the rest of us understand how cool this is’. For the first time in pretty much ever, J-Man actually participated in unwrapping his gifts at our [...]

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