This is a short post to wish all of you a happy holiday and New Year. Adam and I have had such a wonderful year – his wish now to write a book and all that progress with his typing. Finally out of the clutches of autism schools that haven’t...
I think many parents will agree that one of the most challenging things for families with autistic children are outings. Adam’s anxiety and repetitive activities increase over his perceived threats and fear of change; he will need to check out the...
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03-21-2014
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Filed under: Anxiety, Inclusion, communication, Obsessions, Autistic Self Advocacy, Travel, Sensory Differences, Transitions, Safety, Parenting, Autism Theories, Behaviours, Wandering, ABA, Language, Community, Living, seizures, Intelligence, Aides and Assistants, Accessibility
There are times when you have to just stop everything. Adam has required it…his school has required it. A focus on Adam’s typing and adaptations in school have alas been paying him dividends. Despite his want for escape, screaming and bolting...
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03-17-2014
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There are days when I feel so grateful for the support Adam and I receive from the team, friends and family. My university is so supportive of our needs as well, allowing me a leave so I can lesson-plan for Adam and train him more in language and typing...
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Estée Klar
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12-18-2013
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Adam types, mostly independently, and also with various modes of assistance. Of late, he has developed his grammatically perfect sentences and I have to wonder about teaching the system of language. To most, this should be a heralded moment when Adam...
We met Mark this year; he was so sweet to Adam. Mark also wrote the script for this movie I Am In Here. Mark answered many questions after the filming of this, and Adam listened. Thank you everyone for your hard work. I believe we are getting to know...
The end of the day of Adam healing from the croup and us both watching repeats of Wretches & Jabberers for my thesis. Adam can’t help laughing at the scenes of Naoki jumping up and down to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee –...
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Estée Klar
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05-28-2013
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I’m writing my thesis and am hankering to blog – so many things on my mind with the recent Ontario budget proposal, the ever-so teensy weensy allowance for an individual on ODSP to take home a couple hundred bucks a month and the way we may...
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Estée Klar
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05-09-2013
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Filed under: Activism, Autism and Learning, Critical Disability Studies, Autism and Intelligence, Acceptance, communication, autism, Advocacy, Politics, Organizations/Events, Ableism, Language, Community, Charity, The Autism Acceptance Project
In a Long Island living room, a model coffee klatch. Read More...