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We didn’t catch the Night of Too Many Stars: An Overlooked Benefit for Autism Education comedy show on Sunday night (no TV around here) but it just occurred to me that we were there, sort of: The concert was held at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side in New York, right where were […]
“Let’s just drive,” said Jim after he and Charlie had each had their turn in the barber’s chair on Saturday. We had been planning to take the train into New York as Jim needed to go to his office. He can only get into the building until 4pm on Saturday and during the week the […]
The highpoint of the week for us was Thursday night’s reading in conjunction with the Artistic Spectrum exhibit—–and Charlie also had a lot of things to say himself.
Did Your Child Reach Her or His Gross Motor Milestones?
Some parents note that their children had gross motor delays (Charlie did), while others said their child did not. […]
“Happy is he who knows the causes of things,” writes the Roman poet Virgil in Book 2 of his Georgics. Virgil was writing about the stars and the sun and the moon, about why there are eclipses and earthquakes, about natural phenomena, about the cosmos—-and his words can be applied to a much more specific […]
It was cloudy when we drove up to the train station. Charlie had yet to take off his seatbelt when we heard the roaring of the train: “It’s here already, come on!” said Jim and we tugged Charlie out of the car.
Too fast. Charlie started to cry, or rather to wail, but held onto […]
The Artistic Spectrum is the name of an exhibition of artwork of young people aged 10-21 with an autism spectrum disorder. The exhibition will be held from March 19th to April 24th at the Jewish Community Center at 334 Amsterdam Avenue, at 76th Street in Manhattan. Today, April 6th, there’s a Family Art Day (from […]
Charlie rearranged the three folded-up fleece blankets at the foot of his bed and called for Jim: “Da-ad! Da-ad!”
“‘Hey pal, I’ll be in to talk to you,” said Jim who was promptly told by Charlie “lie down!”—whereupon, Jim and I had to agree, it might not be a bad idea to get Charlie a […]
Brooklyn is to Manhattan as California’s East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) is to San Francisco: Today’s New York Times draws these comparisons:
….there is a young, earnest population that is beating a path between artsy, gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn and their counterparts in the Bay Area, especially East Oakland and the area south of Market Street in […]
Jim and I were running to catch a D train under the Port Authority bus terminal on Friday night when we heard the drumming: “Those guys are always here,” Jim noted of two men playing upside down white plastic buckets with sticks. One man wore a black cap; his drumming involved some acrobatic footwork (”$5 […]
Yes, I do mean “artistic”: The Artistic Spectrum is the name of an exhibition of artwork of young people aged 10-21 with an autism spectrum disorder. The exhibition will be held at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Other events will include an Opening Reception to meet the artists (April 2); a Family Art […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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