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Size 7 1/2.
That’s the size of bowling shoes I got for Charlie on Wednesday afternoon, when we go to a local bowling alley with a group of kids like Charlie and their families. I loosened the laces and pulled out the shoe’s tongue so Charlie could slide his feet in and as he did I […]
Effie Linares is 11 years old like my son Charlie. Effie lives in Modesto, California and is mainstreamed in a fifth-grade class; today’s Modesto Bee reports on how far Effie’s come from the time he was 3 years old and started doing intensive ABA under the Lovaas Institute. At 5, at the suggestion of the […]
Last year Charlie had his first surfing lesson. He swam out into the ocean with a 9-foot-surfboard attached to his ankle and was able, after coaxing, to get into a kneeling position, hands grasping the sides of the board. What I remember most from that first lesson was not the long, lazy rides he had […]
We tried a new Mexican restaurant Saturday night. Charlie was initially game to try the rice and beans and licked up some guacamole, then put his hands over his ears (classic rock soundtrack playing) and moaned. I finished up my burrito and took him back to the black car, which is so much a […]
It being the “dog days of August”; us being on vacation at the beach house; the 2008 Olympics taking place; Charlie being a boy who loves loves loves to swim—-I am indulging in making a bit of an Olympic (”citius altius fortius“).
More than a few people have said to me that life raising an autistic […]
Maybe you’ve heard about 9-year-old Lin Hao—-a survivor of the Sichuan earthquake who dug himself out of the rubble and then went back and got two of his classmates out—who appeared in the super-spectacular Opening Ceremony of the Oympics and about whom, as Grace Ibay at Kids Health Notes, writes, Chinese bloggers are talking about:
Not […]
The dry land swimming machine: Now while I hazard that Charlie might like the sort of swinging aspect, swimming without the sensory pleasures of water—nope.
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From the July 30th Hereford Times, a story that brings renewed meaning to the notion of “climbing every mountain”:
Three Herefordshire men with autism have scaled Wales’ highest mountain and raised more than £450.
Peter Woodcock, 21, Sam Peers, 24, and Nicholas Bartlett, 26, climbed Snowdon in aid of Lammas Lodge Care Home in Lugwardine where they […]
That’s how professional surfer Izzy Paskowitz describes Surfers Healing, the one-day surf camps for autistic children that he’s been holding for over a decade all over the US. Paskowitz’s own 17-year-old son, Isaiah, is autistic and there’s no place like the water for him. The Daily Yomiuri reports that families are starting to come from […]
On Tuesday night Charlie faked needing help. On Wednesday afternoon, he helped himself.
We went bowling with our little “special needs bowling league.” We ended up sharing a lane with a boy same age as Charlie, with an older and younger sister—both of whom were easily assisting their brother. They brought over a metal contraption with […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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