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http://www.bbbehavior.com/?p=345
We all have different brains and different talents. Every last one of us is profoundly strange.
Let’s embrace it, you bunch of weirdos.
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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, [...] One red flag of ASD is children who consistently ignore their name, even though you are sure they can hear you. Quinn’s first word at ten months old was “ball.” Her SECOND first word, with the sign, more than a year later and after months of silence, was “flower.” And it was every bit as thrilling. Sign language was huge for us in getting Quinn to speak again. Around her first birthday, we had made a list of all [...] We got a large wipe-board calendar from Staples, and I drew little pictures on certain days. A school bus meant school. A square with a steeple meant church. A cake meant a birthday party, etc. Every time he would ask, “When is such and such going to happen?” we could look at this big calendar and he would count the days. He could also cross out days that were done. You could really see the visual input sink in. Even though he still asked a million questions, it now made sense to him. |
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