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Tell me this has never happened to you, personally, or you, as the parent of an autistic child:
It has been a happy afternoon, it’s a Friday afternoon at the end of a fine week at school and at home. You say to yourself, “We can do something special—a treat,” and all the more so because […]
This post is, as the title indicates, not so much about how to teach something as how to choose the methodology—the type of therapy—-with which to teach. Applied Behavior Analysis of ABA—–and “what kind” of ABA—-verbal behavior (VB) or a more highly structured program? Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)? Or the Floortime therapy (also referred to […]
It having been pointed out that one can find “heart warming feel good stories about high functioning autistic persons in the main stream media and on neurodiversity sites like Autism Vox during the month of April,” I thought I might as well provide one here—with the caveat that, this story being about my son Charlie, […]
Everyday for me starts with coffee. Everyday.
Some months ago, it happened that I bought a cup from a certain store for the first time. As of a few weeks ago, I have been making my coffee only from its beans: It’s a truism that something new—a new book by a favorite writer, a dish […]
“BEACH.”
My son Charlie (he is 9 years and several months old) first read this word on Tuesday and, despite being too sick all week to go to school, he has been reading it every day.
On and off, I have been picking up whatever book or magazine happens to be lying around, and asking Charlie “what […]
Caroline asked in a comment on the previous post, Never Say Never, how did Charlie learn to ride his bike without the training wheels? To use the hand brakes? What specific instructions did we use? And who taught him?Charlie first learned to push the pedals with his feet thanks to the efforts of an ABA […]
I just met with my son Charlie’s teacher (he is in a self-contained classroom with a 1:1 teacher:student ratio located in a local public school). For the past five years? six years? we have been working on teaching Charlie to write. When he was five years old, he was able to trace and to write […]
“Emergency Preparedness” is the topic for this month’s b5media.com’s Science and Health Channel’s Theme Day. Having grown up in earthquake country—northern California’s Bay Area—I have long been familiar with the notion of the earthquake survival kit. My parents have had theirs for a long time, a large Rubbermaid container stocked with bottled water, flashlights […]
Can getting in touch with one’s “sixth sense” help a person with autism? An article in today’s Southern.com (Illinois) notes that a man named Grieg Pedersen “wants to refine his skill in Reiki and lessen the effects of mild autism” by improving his psychic and divination abilities. Pedersen is attending a class taught by “Coyote” […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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