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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.”
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, bubble wrap, calendar, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, Health, Parenting, Sensory, TimeShare […]
In the ongoing chicken and egg type debate over what the causes of autism might be, how often have you it said that it’s believed that a child may have a “genetic predisposition” to autism, but that it’s an “environmental trigger”—-it’s something in the environment—-that leads to a child “having autism”?
An August 13th post on […]
It’s about three weeks till Charlie goes back to school. He’s (as often noted here) looking forward to it, as he knows that a good classroom with well-trained teachers and therapists awaits him. But what if you don’t have a school for your child to attend—-that’s the situation facing some autistic children in Tucson: KVOA […]
Change of scenery, change of routine—-that’s all part of vacation and, as recounted here, why Charlie’s first three days at the beach house were full of more sorrow than smiles. We’re back in the swim (big-time—-Jim’s been calling Charlie “the torpedo” for the way he propels himself through the water, in the moving waves and […]
Today’s WFAA.com reports that 15-year-old Kati Jo Hazlett, who is 5′ tall, has dark blonde hair and blue eyes, was last seen at her McKinney home. Go here to see her photo. And hope she is found and home, soon.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, disability, Family, family blog, Health, kids blog, mckinney, missing children […]
Regarding this boycott of the movie Tropic Thunder over its use of the term “retarded” and director and star Ben Stiller’s portrayal of “a weak-minded character named Simple Jack” : It’s starting to seem that, really, Hollywood’s got the “developmental delays”—is being “a little slow to get it”—-at least when it comes to understanding why […]
Gerald Guay, who formerly worked in a Bloomfield (CT) state-run group home for mentally disabled people, was banned from working in the health care industry after pleading guilty to negligent cruelty to a person, the August 11th Hartford Courant reports. Guay tormented and abused 38-year-old Christopher Stockton, who has severe autism, developmental disabilities, and obsessive-compulsive […]
Third time, or day’s, the charm?
Monday the sun shone, we got in two swims in the ocean, and Charlie seemed a bit more, and even much more, relaxed about being at the beach house. He tried the boogie board briefly and smiled when he shoved his feet far underneath the squishy wet sand. He […]
6-year-old Grayson Sherrell drowned in a backyard swimming pool last Friday, today’s Gaston Gazette reports:
Police say Grayson wandered off from the backyard of his grandparents, Robert and Betty Saunders of the 3600 block of Raven Hill Drive, Gastonia.
They realized he was gone after three or four minutes and began searching for him. When they didn’t […]
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 […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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