Therapy

The Cost to Raise a Child and Yet More Autism Disparity

August 5, 2009

I saw the results of a study this morning that gave the total cost of raising a child (in our lingo, a neurotypical child) into adulthood. Let’s compare that to the cost given by a Harvard study a couple of years ago on the cost to raise an autistic child into adulthood. Average cost of [...]

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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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What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like Now? (Part 2)

February 22, 2009

This is Part 2 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?”. Note: Wherever you see “DSM-IV” below, this means that attribute is part of [...]

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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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Mental Health Gets Bailed Out Too! And Disability Rights Activists Get a Two-Fer!

October 3, 2008

OK, I wasn’t planning on posting again until the blog redesign is done (which should be in the next day or two) and we can issue forth a whole exciting deluge of revelations and great excitement. But this was too good to not post. While I think the whole bailout bonanza in Congress is too [...]

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IEP Results – The Short Version

August 26, 2008

Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and well wishes for today’s IEP meeting. We appreciate everyone’s encouragement! This is the brief version because we’re feeling baked right now. After all the emotion and stress that gets invested in the IEP process, now that it’s essentially over, all we can think about doing is crashing [...]

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Surfing Therapy for Autistic Children

August 24, 2008

The Surfer’s Healing day camp is a highly-acclaimed, insanely-popular surf camp for children with autism. Everybody who has done it has given it rave reviews. We’re obviously not ready for such an adventure, but I keep hearing about it from parents here, so I was glad to see them do a piece on local TV [...]

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Our First Experience with Therapeutic Listening

August 7, 2008

Tuesday we tried something with J-Man’s OT called “Therapeutic Listening” (officially, it’s a trademarked term by somebody). You may have come across this under terms like ‘auditory therapy’, ‘auditory training’, ‘listening therapy’, and a host of other terms. I don’t understand how all this works very well at all, and there are different approaches to [...]

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