So much of a child’s world can be framed in an ongoing series of different skills. For example, some kids have the “skill of” saying hello and greeting someone for the first time. Others may have the “skill of” manners in social interactions by saying “please” and “thank you” – things like that. The skills
The title of this blog may seem to some, well, ridiculous, but not to a parent of a child with special needs. Of course you have accepted what life has given you. We have to accept and do what we will with the circumstances that come our way and when given that diagnosis or label
Sometime you wonder whether your child will ever get the little nuances that are necessary in order to get through life. There are times when everything seems to be going quite well that I fool myself into thinking that hey…maybe just maybe some of the work is over, but then I am pulled back into
Sometimes I get lost in all of the therapies, advice, opinions and ‘new findings’ related to autism. That’s when I refer back to five simple tips for autism parenting provided by the renowned Dr. Temple Granding last year during an interview for one of my Examiner.com columns. I find myself referring back to these rules again
It is interesting how we as parents can lull ourselves into believing whatever we want to about our children. I had thought I had learned the lesson to not take everything the school or the paras say about progress to heart and do a little investigation on my own. Alas I fell back into
One of the main issues that children on the autism spectrum face is the ability to take what they learn from one situation and apply it in a totally different scenario. In fact the scenarios may not even be all that different, except for the introduction of a new dynamic or a removal of a
