She urgently needs personal development process and that can be done only with someone who is not judgmental and want to help her. You can check on this blog, there are hundreds of activities you can find. Make them a game, make sure it is not “punishment” but growth assignments. ( I...
I have been wondering if you hear from any children of parents who may have been somewhere on the autistic spectrum. My parents tried their best to be good parents but something felt off. I am now in my 60’s and having raised a child who was diagnosed with being on the spectrum, I...
He is thought by some to perceive things in a pinball machine that nobody else can, and Maurizio believes that once he has seen and learned enough machines in enough different contexts -- if he can somehow control everything else he perceives -- the kid, his son, Rober...
The thing is though that there is a year difference in age built in naturally into every class. The kids that are right over the cut off date are a year older than those right below it. So if you have a summer birthday kid they might be a month or so off from that but everyone ...
I have a 16-year-old autistic/ADHD son who has a bad attitude. He hates school, probably due to all the bullying. He has made a few friends but of course these are the people that drink too much and get into trouble. He keeps a part-time job but complains constantly aboutMore ...
“Ms. S,” a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis who, in 2017, starved herself to meet eligibility criteria that her death was “reasonably foreseeable,” a case with eerie echoes to the 27-year-old autistic Calgary woman who stopped eating and drinking in May over a judge...
To emotionally disengage from our child’s testing behavior and remain confident with a limit we’ve set, it can sometimes help to sing a little tune in our head… “la-la-la”. Then, as our child is clinging onto our legs, we might casually acknowledge, “Hmmm… I feel you holding ...
Echolalia as Gestalt Language Processing in Autistic Children Some children with autism use echolalia as their primary means of learning to speak. They begin by speaking in full sentences that they use as a single unit, called “language gestalts”. For example, a child may say “do you want...
Kids are naturally curious AND have limited attention spans, so it’s only a matter of time before that curiosity gets the best of them. And they start exploring. So, as parents, we really need some parental controls in place. We need to have the ability to lock apps into Kids Mode. ...
average autistic CF lgm. Nothing to worry about imo. Also Indians say "question" as the classroom system has taught us since we were little that there are questions to be answered instead of problems to be solved. Reflects the hierarchical nature of our society but says nothing about individua...