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Sunday brought another report of an individual on the autism spectrum—13-year-old Anthony Kiraly, who has Asperger Syndrome, of Empire, Wisconsin—-who wandered away from his home and was found 20 miles away after the Sheriff’s Department had been contacted and conducted a full-scale search by ground and helicopter. Elopement—wandering—has been a not-uncommon story in the news […]
A certain TV show about a certain lawyer and a certain hypothesis about what causes autism dominated autism discussions this week, for better or for worse—-when I talk about autism, I’m thinking of a very real boy, my son Charlie, and not so much about a fictional TV character. My real boy’s week was more […]
My “strategies,” or techniques, or whatever word you wish to use, for helping Charlie when he’s in tantrum mode or when I can hear and feel one building up in him, have changed over the years. I’ve “ignored” (i.e., pretended to ignore, if that is possible) tantrums. I’ve said (this was the most futile technique) […]
Charlie has been more or less on the gluten-free casein-free diet since June of 1999, when he had just turned two years old. I say “more or less” because, in the past year, we started to experiment with Charlie eating the occasional hamburger bun or a bagel when a classmate’s mother brought in a special […]
The past two weeks featured a week of autism on TV profiling Amanda Baggs and DJ Savarese. We enjoyed a very lowkey Thanksgiving and then a very interesting week, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her autism plan and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee met on November 30th, last Friday. Here’s the highlights:
Drinking During Pregnancy Linked […]
We went to the pool for a special Saturday program in which autistic children are paired with teenage volunteers. I was talking to two mothers I know and we all looked down at the same time and saw a little boy, swim diaper showing over his swim suit, crawling on the ledge that goes all […]
A few days ago, a parent, Lisa, posted this comment on a post from over a year ago, The First Principle of Floortime, regarding combining different types of educational therapies:
We are going to be starting a program with our son, that combines RDI and ABA. The private therapist feels ABA alone doesn’t address the social […]
French fries, chicken nuggets, pizza: What do these three foods have in common?
They are what is called “fast food.”
They are not exactly “healthy,” being deep-fried in oil or (in the case of the pizza) dripping oil and grease.
They taste really good (to the general population).
They are all that your child eats.
Picky or fussy eating—-”neophobia“— is […]
Niksmom, who blogs at Maternal Instincts—Flying By the Seat of My Pants, has written a “Cry for Help.” Nike has multiple disabilities and exceptional needs including cerebral palsy and seizures and is on the autism spectrum; last week he was in the hospital for a respiratory infection and also a skin infection. His mom, whom […]
On a warm and bright Sunday morning, Charlie ran out of the car with his piano books in a bag over his shoulder and—all smiles—across the grass to his piano teacher’s apartment. He opened the door and stepped in and I could just hear his teacher saying “Hi, Charlie,” when there was Charlie zooming out, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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