If you ask most parents, aggression is the hardest thing to deal with as parents. It invokes “crisis” and disrupts family life and learning. For many years since Scotty was 3 years old autism took on many faces - tantrums, head banging, blood curling screams, scratching, biting and sleepless nights. After many [...]
On our recent trip to Mexico, one of the things we noticed was our difficulty understanding their language. Because we only know words, but not how they are put together, we can only understand about 2 words each sentence. For those who cannot speak English it was a struggle to communicate. It [...]
This is a poem I was given in a support group. It was hard to read at the time, but now I fully understand it. It deals with the acceptance of our lot in life whether that be our children or our roles. We do not design or plan our lives, thankfully [...]
About three years ago I was led to NDT by Dennis Gunderson of Grace and Truth books. I was in the trivium pursuit e-loop asking about a phonics program for children with autism. He then recommended a book “Too Wise To Be Mistaken, Too Good To Be Unkind” by Cathy Steere. It was [...]
Our homeschooling journey began in 2001, when I started reading books on the subject. The books that helped me the most were A Mom Just Like You by Vicki Farris, The WholeHearted Child by Sally Clarkson, Praise Her in the Gates by Nancy Wilson , and Lifestyle of Learning by Marilyn Howshall. With [...]
Some days it seems the only predictable thing about it is the unpredictability. The only consistent attribute, the inconsistency. There is little argument on any level but that autism is baffling, even to those who spend their
lives around it.
The child who lives with autism may look “normal,” but his or her behavior can be perplexing [...]
His stay at Walter White was an eventful one. It was a classroom filled with 6-8 autistic children ages 6-8 yrs. old and each had a corresponding one on one aide. All the time spent in this classroom was crisis management for there was a tantrum about every 10 minutes. The behavioral approach carried through [...]
For the next two months I researched what services were needed, what to file, who to call. The next step was for Scotty to go through a 40 hour a week intensive behavioral training at home, funded by VMRC and our school district. All the experts said that this was the most effective, and prognosis [...]
Our journey with autism began after his second birthday. My mother in law had noticed that he didn’t seem to hear. He started some odd behaviors such as rocking back and forth, 2 hour tantrums, banging his head and playing with toys over and over. We tried to take him to an audiologist at this [...]
Autism is a type of developmental disorder that can affect all or some of a child’s development. It is biological(an injured brain) and not psychological as it once was thought. It is an abnormality that affects the function of the brain that manifests itself through bizzare and confusing behavior. In order to diagnose, most doctors [...]