Speech Delay

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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The Clinical Definitions of Autism, Asperger’s, and PDD-NOS

February 19, 2009

As a preamble to the upcoming sequel to “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?” (coming very soon!), I thought we should first go straight to the source in which the diagnoses are defined – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fourth Edition or DSM-IV. (Technically, it’s DSM-IV-TR, where TR stands for ‘text revision’, [...]

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Musings from the Weekend

February 2, 2009

With everybody in the house feeling not so great with a combination of being sick, tired, and/or pregnant, I can’t muster up enough brainpower to write something more thought-out and coherent, so here are my random musings from this weekend – at least still on topic. I think I’ve discovered a new symbol for autism, [...]

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We love Rachel too!

January 18, 2009

Saturday afternoon (frigid weather!) we’re watching Signing Time. Rachel comes on to sing the introduction song. J-man touches the TV screen: “Ahh elll uhvvv yu uuu, Err Aa K-Kul!” (To the uninitiated, that’s “I love you, Rachel!”) No prompting, no saying every syllable behind him, just straight out. Also, when Rachel sings a song, J-man [...]

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The 439 Stages of Grief

January 6, 2009

[Note from me: This is another draft installment of that collection of essays and reflections that I hope to someday compile into a book. The first one I posted was "What if he never talks?", though I plan for other posts here to someday appear in that collection too. As always, comments are welcome.] The [...]

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Many Ways to Say ‘I Love You’

January 3, 2009

As I described yesterday in the “One Syllable At a Time” post, we’re getting some great mileage out of breaking everything down into these syllable-by-syllable exchanges, going as far as dividing one syllable sounds into even smaller parts as needed. So, much to our eternal and unending delight, the J-Man has two wonderful sentences he [...]

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One Syllable At a Time

January 2, 2009

Since we’re still in a post-holiday funk around here and about as lively as the furniture, I’m doing a little content recycling today from a recent comment I made to at least get back to posting. I think all the endless eating and football-watching has killed off a bunch of my brain cells! Over the [...]

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Think All Flash Cards Are Alike? Think Again! – A Review of Goosie Cards

December 11, 2008

To preview what Goosie Cards are, visit their web site at GoosieCards.com. As we’ve chronicled in recent posts (see “My God, He IS Reading!”, “Roy G. Biv”), our son is all about his flash cards lately. They’re not going to displace the Sacred Wooden Letter Blocks of Steadfast Security and Comfort anytime soon, but flash [...]

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