Fearless Folks … autism and beyond …

You are probably waiting to read how the rest of Meghan’s week went after the very first day.  Well, it went well.  She was fine and had no other outbursts.  Typically when she’s home for an entire week (happens 2 to 3 times per year unless we want more time…. More?  Just another measure of [...]

I realized that one of the reasons why I blog, if no other than to vent my frustrations, but to help me articulate my thoughts and feelings; to sort them out and see them in black and white. Like the comfort and satisfaction that poetry had provided me at the very start of my children’s [...]

Meghan was home last week for a thanksgiving break. I know she enjoyed her week, because she didn’t want to leave “vacation” and go back to school. Don’t we all feel that way?
 
The hardest part of raising kids is teaching them the balance between work and fun, I mean they need to understand that life [...]

I’ve been away for a while, taking a break from thinking, writing, reading about the world of autism… I think you know what I mean?
 
Well, actually, this break was prematurely forced upon me. One night, about a month ago, I was sitting on my bed with Meghan while she was using my laptop to explore [...]

I was asked to give a book review, and after hearing all about this book, I was more than happy to do so….
 
The book is new and is called 101 Games and Activities for Children with Autism, Asperger’s, and Sensory Processing Disorders, written by Tara Delaney, M.S., OTR. 
 

 
She starts the book by telling us about [...]

This morning the sun was shining, the weather breezy and comfortable—a perfect summer day. I got a few phone calls from family members asking about Nick and trying to figure out the issue of his anxiety or his repeating words over and over (stimming, chanting, or whatever I should call it):  it’s summertime over and over. It hasn’t [...]

Nick has been talking to himself more regularly than ever before. He will be all alone in the family room and start chanting the same thing over and over like, “No school, it’s summertime, it’s summertime, no school, it’s summertime, it’s summertime ….” over and over again, and I’ve also noticed him doing this form [...]

Meghan loves salt, and she’s always had a strange kind of addiction to it that we’ve had to watch and monitor throughout her life. It was always interesting for me to observe her want and crave so much salt—too much actually—as if her taste buds couldn’t get enough of the biter stuff.
 
I remember when I [...]

Nick is absolutely petrified about walking the halls of his school, and after a quick interview with him, this is what I’ve come up with.
 
He finally told me that his speech class teacher made him go back to his regular class by himself, which is walking down two large hallways to get to his class—the [...]