January 2010 - Autism Blogger - The Network of Care

Good School Districts in Southern California?

Hello, Does anyone have knowledge to which School Districts are good and which ones are bad for SOuthern California? Our daughter currently goes to West Covina Unified, whaich is not that great? Anyone have knowledge as to which school districts...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 9:25 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Education

Autism Seizure Activity

Our son who is 20 has always had "autistic tendencies" but recently within the past 2-3 months he has developed occasional seizure activity which lasts anywhere from 5-30 seconds. What can we do to help him? When he's playing his Xbox and...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 8:30 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Help

please help

my baby girl, who is now 7 months old, has been flapping her left hand for many months now. She sometimes strokes her clothes, or her bottle, and occasionally strokes her lip. I became concerned about this after seeing a program on TV and started to do...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 1:37 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Tampa FL...Autism Support Group Meeting...January 14th

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Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 11:36 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Events

Princess Ava

My name is Mandy, and I am new to the blog. So hello everyone. :-) I am now officially a mother of two children, and infant son named Henry, and my 3 1/2 year old daughter, Ava. I just received the official diagnosis; my princess is autistic. It was something...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 7:07 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Awaiting a Second, More Definitive Autism Diagnosis

My daughter is 4 years old. She has already been diagnosed with autism two years ago. We were referred by early intervention due to my daughter's breath-holding spells to a neurologist. When we were in his office, he asked why we were there. I told...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 6:59 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Kids who have autistic parents

Hello, my name is Audrey and i have a 4 year old little girl. I am wondering how to explain to her about her father's autism and I was hoping that maybe someone can give me a bit of advice. I would greatly appreciate it. Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2010 9:50 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Close Shave

All of a sudden Alex has a line along his upper lip. At first, like every parent of a boy pushing 12, I assumed it was dirt. Then I assumed it was shadow. Then I realized that Alex is getting older and older and older, and suddenly another milestone was...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 7:10 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

TSA Update.

My wife and I had a very productive meeting with the supervisor of the TSA here in Portland today, they were very accomidating and very understanding. We had specific questions about secondary screening and our proximity to Derek if it is needed and they...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 4:59 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

ASPERGER SYNDROME

My 9 year old son has recently been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. So I am slowly finding out as much information on the subject as possible. Life seems to have got better since his diagnosis as now he has a "label" - teachers and people...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 12:01 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Depression

I am really down at this moment. I am still not sure how to deal with everything. My son has been diagnosed March of last year with PDD-NOS. I just had my second surgery of this past year and still am recovering. I had a bad crying spell the last couple...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 8:54 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

TSA and Autism

We are taking a vacation next week and flying, so with all of the craziness that has been going on over the past few weeks I went to the websites of both my local airport and the TSA so that I could find out what the latest changes in screenings have...

Published Tue, Jan 05 2010 10:55 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

To Tell Or Not To Tell

Be honest with your child regarding their strengths and weaknesses. Sure, we want to protect our kids from the outside world bent on their emotional destruction. However, we can help our children by informing them that their reactions to certain situations...

Published Tue, Jan 05 2010 2:21 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

first day back

So, first day back to school from winter break. Zare tried to campaign for a show after breakfast, whined when that didn't work and then went to read. I finished thank you notes in another room. I went to tell the boys they had five minutes, when...

Published Mon, Jan 04 2010 2:51 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Self Esteem

Luke totally looks to me as his emotional guide. If I get mad at his behavior and say "that behavior was not acceptable, you need to go sit down and calm down", he will say "mommy, i still love you" (with a very sad face.) It is not...

Published Sun, Jan 03 2010 7:41 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

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Good School Districts in Southern California?

Autism Seizure Activity

please help

Tampa FL...Autism Support Group Meeting...January 14th

Princess Ava

Awaiting a Second, More Definitive Autism Diagnosis

Kids who have autistic parents

Close Shave

TSA Update.

ASPERGER SYNDROME

Depression

TSA and Autism

To Tell Or Not To Tell

first day back

Self Esteem