Here’s a link to a great story on Autism Vox, another parent blog: A boy won’t try hot chocolate, although he loves chocolate milk. Mom sticks his fingers in it. He licks them off, smiles, and drinks it all down. Sensory issues can be useful in trumping other issues, and vice versa.
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Is it genetics, the environment, mom’s pregnant stress, vaccines, total randomness? When I look at what we went through with Quinn – and again, because of her rate of improvement and progress she always stayed matching-two-blocks-and-pointing-at-a-bear ahead of an actual diagnosis – I can tell you our story and what I think contributed to her issues. 1. [...] Autism mom Jessica from Pensacola, Fla., offers some of her favorite sites (aside from Talk Small, of course) for information and tools, games, printables and other online activity. Thanks, Jessica! jacobslessons.com – If you are wanting to get your kid on the computer and also get some ABA-type teaching, this is a good site. It’s free, [...] Who needs a DVD player when a tablespoon will make the baby recite the entire script of "Mary Poppins"? I am of a generation, and a family, where entire conversations can go by without an original sentence being uttered. It might go something like this: Simpsons, Simpsons, Dirty Dancing, Seinfeld, High Plains Drifter, Road House, infomercial, [...] Amber B. of Toledo, Ohio, is making the terrifying Chicken Dance Elmo earn his keep: I love the ideas here! So many workable solutions – sometimes a common problem for an uncommon child requires a bit of different thinking! I know for our family, one particular moment of inspiration came from an ill-fated gift. See, my 4-year-old [...] |
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