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Awesome pink sound-blockers! Ours aren't this cool… As someone who goes completely nuts if I hear more than two seconds of static, and has been known to become enraged if someone stirs a cup of coffee too vigorously or too long, I have sympathy for sensitive ears. If you have a kid like mine, who walks [...] The doctor said she may have autism. We went home and took away her blocks. Quinn would spend hours and hours stacking and restacking blocks. Wooden blocks, stuffed blocks, building blocks, baby Legos. And we were happy to let her do it. It kept her quiet. We said she was training to be an architect – or an [...] Play-Doh was the enemy. It was squishy. It was sticky. It was flat one minute and round the next. What kind of witchcraft was that? Quinn wanted nothing to do with it. Quinn did not want to touch the Play-Doh with her hands. I can see that. There are lots of things I don’t want to pick up or [...] My child ignored me. I could jump, dance, sing. Bang a pan. Wear a shoe as a hat. The louder I got, the more I begged for her attention, the more she turned away. One day I stood in front of her and did an 97 decibel song-and-dance number titled, “Quinn, Do You Want To Go Outside [...] Talk Small is a site for parents of kids with autism spectrum disorders and sensory integration issues to share their home therapy and coping ideas with other parents who are working to crack the code of these unique little brains. |
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