December 2009 - Autism Blogger - The Network of Care

One of the Many confusing behaviors

I am new today to this site. I have a nine year old son with many issues. But today I thought I would ask about just one. Nobody on the many sites I have looked at has talked about this one so I was just curious if anyone has come across this. My son...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 3:44 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Academics

Today will be the start of Nick going to the Oxford Learning Centre in our local city. He is struggling with math. For the last two years this has shown. Yesterday I had a brief visit at his school and to my surprise the teacher thought that math was...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 12:22 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Other Stuff

Roll On

Sitting at the dinnertable, I hear a strange noise from the bathroom and suddenly realize that Alex has been in there for almost the whole time it's taken me to eat half my slice of salmon loaf. "Alex, what are you doing in there?" He's...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 7:32 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Testing Limits

Was I in for it today! My 13 year old son, told me I talked too much and he wanted to run away. I weathered the storm and told him I loved him.we're buddies again. Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 05 2009 7:57 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Care

You know more than doctors

I, and half the town knew my son had Autism 2 years before the doctor wrote it down. Obviously, your childs doctor is the ruler of decision. I could not get help for my son til the doctor wrote it down, but now it causes conflicts with other parties....

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 9:56 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism News

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

Both Kids are on a tight schedule when it comes to bedtimes, no variations to the rule unless we are at an event that runs long. So all of the televised christmas specials that start at 8pm? Sorry, networks. But I found the charlie brown special at value...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 3:53 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Start Them Early

Alex has been receiving therapies since he was a baby living in a hospital, and we wish we’d started earlier, 50 grand be damned. I believe early treatment is to autism as scoring 50 points in the first quarter is to winning a football game: It only makes...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 3:03 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

10 years old and not toilet trained

I have a 10 year old son with a DX of Autism, and a 15q12 chromosome duplication. At one time about 5 years ago he was slightly toilet trained at the ABA therapy school he attended, however, he got influenza while there and all that he had learned was...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 11:47 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Help

Autism Reality

Despite the fact that this is from one of the further-out conspiracy theorists in the neurodiversity world, I thought I'd post the link to this interesting 10 minute video on what it feels like to be autistic in a neurotypical society. Also interesting...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 10:51 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

HELP!!!!

Hi I've posted before about starting an autism awareness group for the community here and guess what. the school disrict wants me to represent parents with specail needs for the state assesment they have. so here is the delima. I have two children...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 12:45 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Surveys and Studies

Christmas at our house.

Christmas is by far Derek's favorite time of the year.....He knows that after Thanksgiving I will go to the storage unit and get the decorations but we can't put any up until we pick out a tree. This year we went to our usual tree lot and he is...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 5:28 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

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A good nights sleep

My 3 year old son (Brandon) has had some sleeping problems since he was about 10 months old. Up until a couple of months ago, he wasn't able to have his own room so he was in the same room as me and he took advantage of it! He would fall asleep in...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 8:57 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Tasha

When Derek transitioned from school to his community inclusion program we had alot of concerns about him moving away from all of the people that he was familiar with and that he would be lonely, and at first he kept to himself and then we were told that...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 9:41 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Approaching Expectations

Have written new blog post on my website. Tagged for Autism and Christianity. http://www.forthesakeofjoy.com/approaching-expectations/ On a related note - does anyone else find "report card time" to be a bit of a joke? :) Our overall grade,...

Published Sat, Dec 05 2009 9:52 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

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