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What do you get when you combine bubble wrap and numbers, and a need to keep track of time for your eager-to-return-to-school 11 year old?
The Bubble Calendar, a “poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.”
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“School tomorrow!” Charlie told me with his best grin this morning. He’d slept in, had breakfast around 11, practiced cello with a little coaxing. His internal clock is ticking away: Two days off and it tells him, that was the weekend, back to school. Imagine if everyone preferred to go without long weekends and always […]
While he seems to have a strong internal sense of what time it is, it’s been more difficult for Charlie to learn to tell time looking at a clock (the occasional “12 o’clock thirty” slips out). Here’s really big clock he or anyone would have a hard time missing. (If it was analog he was […]
Last night I went to see a friend who had recently gotten tenure at the college where he teaches. We started graduate school together back in 1990 and have been through various jobs, households, cities. Another friend who had also started her studies with us walked in the door, and there was a lot […]
There was a time when I never was sure my alarm clock would go off to wake me up for work. I had a digital alarm clock and Charlie, starting when he was about six years old, loved to post himself on his knees in front of a digital clock and change the numbers. At […]
Today is the Ides of March, the 15th of March according to the Roman Calendar. On my own calendar, I had marked March 14th as the date of a meeting of the meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in Washington, D.C.. I had attended the November meeting; here is the testimony of some […]
Something was up with the servers here yesterday (and might still be): I’ve been endlessly refreshing and reloading and thanking the tech guys who have been working and working at it. I know too well that sometimes things just take time.
This is the case with so much for Charlie. Sometimes there are days when every […]
I was scheduled to visit Charlie at his class at precisely that time, 1.30pm on Tuesday. I signed in the school office, put on my sticker name tag, and ended up wandering back and forth in the first floor corridor (Charlie’s school is made up of an old stone building and a much newer, very […]
“There’s a timeline to fix your kid.”
So Jenny McCarthy is quoted in the November 9th Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
For those of us (myself included) who were not able to keep to that timeline—-who are living every day with an autistic child who is growing older, growing up, learning more as the years pass by, and doing well—-I […]
There’s been a discussion going on in the comments to my post on So That’s What Happened to the Clock on the Computer (aka a post on Halloween and trick or treating). The discussion has been about Daylight Saving Time, with asides about how life in the modern world (and after the wake of the […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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