Tag: Autism
Trying to Motivate my ADHD, Aspergers, & Sometimes ODD Teenage Boy
My boys belong to a church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America troop. It has been a good experience for them. We have an upcoming camp out, and once again Whirlwind is declaring loudly he doesn’t want to go. He does this just about every scout camp […]
Autism Hat Tutorial
The Back Story of this Autism Hat Tutorial For a while now I’ve been contemplating making something that would possibly make my life a little easier. I’ve had enough meltdowns on outings with my ASD kids to know I wanted to do something to indicate […]
Autism and Research
Over the last few years we’ve spent many, many hours at our favorite Autism medical center. We’ve had evaluations, therapy sessions, meetings with licensed clinical social workers and physicians of all sorts. In the last year we began to participate in a study for siblings […]
Review of Vintage Mickey
As I was thinking of countdown activities to do with my kids, the idea came to me to have the family watch every Disney movie ever made. then I realized 1) If you count sequels and all live action movies, it is a verrrrry long […]
13 Tips and/or Mistakes to Avoid When Taking Your Autism Spectrum Child(ren) to Universal Studios Wizarding World of Harry Potter
This post used to be titled, “Why I Won’t Be Taking My Autism Spectrum Children Back to Universal Islands of Adventure” I generally try to be pretty positive, and I realized my post and title were not at all positive. So I’m rewriting this […]
Acroboy Has Graduated from Speech Therapy
Right as school is ending I received a letter from the speech therapist at the elementary school. It stated that Acroboy has met all of his speech goals and services would be ending. I’m not sure how to feel about this. I’m pleased that he […]
Frustrations and Gratitude
We had a 504 meeting for Acroboy. Well, I thought it was going to be a 504 meeting for Acroboy. Acroboy’s teacher has been giving him some accommodations to help him in class. He gets extra reminders, visual cues, he sits close to her on […]
April is Autism Awareness Month
Seven years ago my only exposure to Autism was meeting Kim Peek, the gentleman who inspired the movie, “Rain Man”. Or so I thought. Little did I know that my sweet little eight-year-old boy who had a difficult time interacting with more than one child […]
Counting our Blessings
I was talking with my friend, Michele, on the phone earlier today. We were talking about Pinterest and how I had found a mega-board with over 2,000 Autsm pins. Granted, some of the pins are duplicates, but it was full of wonderful ideas I hadn’t […]
Doctors, Errands, and More Doctors, (Wait is this déjà vu?)
This last week I took Acroboy into our favorite medical center to have an evaluation with a developmental pediatrician. She talked to me, went over his history, diagnosis (PDD-NOS and ADHD), then tested his skills in a few areas. Acroboy read a story to her […]