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En route to go swimming at my college in Jersey City, the wail of a police siren behind us made Charlie cringe and cry out. I explained that it was a police car in a hurry to help someone—maybe there was an accident. Charlie sat up straight in the middle of the back seat and […]
A lovely 97 degrees here in New Jersey today and Charlie just requested to swim in the big pool at my college (ABC filmed him swimming some in this pool last Monday and I hope some of the footage makes it on the segment to be shown tomorrow, Tuesday). If you can’t get to a […]
10-year-old Johnny Jackson died last week while taking a nap in his house from “asphyxiation due to drowning”—-according to today’s ABC News, Johnny may have died from secondary drowning. Johnny, who had attention deficit disorder and autism, had been playing in the neighborhood pool for about 45 minutes. He was wearing flotation devices on his […]
Last year I more than once expressed my frustration about getting Charlie time to swim in the pool at our YMCA. For reasons that you can read about here, Charlie has not been able to swim in the “big pool” at the hours when we can go (late afternoon/early evening). Our YMCA does have a […]
Last fall, I wrote about our difficulties getting swimtime in for Charlie at our YMCA pool in the later afternoon/early evenings, the time when he’s most ready to go. Our YMCA has three pools, two of which seem to be perpetually in use for the swim teams’ practices, adult lap swimming, or lessons. The third […]
On leaving the YMCA swimming pool yesterday evening (Charlie jumped in fast and then asked to go on the water slides and I skipped up the steps after him; after his first ride, he was so excited that he turned three somersaults in the water and swam half the length of the pool with […]
In musicogenic epilepsy, seizures are trigged by music; Neurophilosophy writes about Stacey Gayle, whose seizures seem to have been trigged by hearing Sean Paul’s Temperature. Rock and roll—complete with high-volume drum beats and amped-up guitars and very loud singers—-does not seem to bother Charlie too much. But he definitely tells me “all done” and “turn […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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