Check out this great post from Empower Autism about enjoying your kids every day instead of considering them a work in progress, or waiting for the ship to come in.
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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, [...] 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. When Quinn’s team would ask about preschool plans, and we would mention Montessori, there were several points to be made – both good and bad. In the early age classes, for example, the Montessori curriculum in our city generally sticks to concrete and real ideas. Things like fairytales and imaginative play are not encouraged, and all books [...] Quinn is four, and she has never asked a why question. Or a “How come?” She has the “who, what and where” down, no problem. But after that, she doesn’t do a lot of digging. She respects your right to keep your motives private. |
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