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The first thing I have to say about being at BlogHer was that, because I didn’t have to keep looking for a boy at my back (not that I didn’t sometimes turn and scan the room for him; it’s a reflex)—-because I was on my own, I got a chance to look at some things […]
Not “a school for kids with autism,” but “a school that accepts kids with autism”—so Alison Moors, director of the Academy for Precision Learning says in an article in the June 27th Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paul Nyhan. The school is just finishing its first year, with four teachers and five students. It was started by […]
Are disability dolls a “blessing or a sick joke“?, the June 25th Times (UK) asks. There are dolls with prosthetic devices, dolls with Down Syndrome, and Chemo Friends for kids with cancer (and back in 1997, Mattel came out with Share a Smile Becky, in a wheelchair). My Autism Dolls makes ragdolls from puzzle piece […]
The average mother of a child under 15 spends more on fast food per year than on books, music, movies, and video games combined, the June 2nd New York Times reports. Ok, ok, we’re in this demographic (keeping in mind that Charlie plays and wants zero video games).
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The bouncy castle.
How often have we beheld one rising in its multicolored puffy glory, tethered to the tramped-on grass with cords and a machine with a fan running loud and hot to keep the bounce in the castle?
Charlie would stare wide-eyed and he’d walk over quickly, his hand in Jim’s. This being a couple of […]
Read about it here in the March 15th Philadelphia Inquirer. The therapy has autistic children build with Legos and animate what they make by taking a sequence of digital photographs. Members of the “Lego Club” meet for one hour a week at the Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health in Voorhees, N.J. under the supervision […]
Long Before Legos, Wood Was Nice and Did Suffice proclaims today’s New York Times in explaining why industrial designer Tucker Viemeister prefers, and still has, sets of Froebel wooden blocks. Froebel blocks are named for Friedrich Froebel, who created kindergarten and who also devised the idea of making boxed sets of blocks “meant to inform […]
Maybe it’s because, for the past several years, my husband has been writing a book about the port of New Jersey and New York and about the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is about how broken-down boxer/longshoreman Terry Malloy finds redemption when he stands up to the corrupt union bosses who control the docks […]
“What would he like for Christmas?” “What can we can get him?” The relatives ask me these questions every year; every year I say, “I’ll get back to you.” “I’ll send an email.” But I already have a pretty clear idea of what Charlie will say when I ask him “what do you want?”.
Not […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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