One Family's Adventure In Raising An Autistic Child
So much has been happening since the last post in September. Joshua’s school team and I met for an IEP on November 2nd and I was grateful to be able to update this new treatment team for him as to how his treatment is going outside of school. We met for 2.5 hours, most of [...]
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We had the opportunity to go to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, as well as the NE corner of Washington State for 8 days of vacation. Living in Western Washington, this summer, to get any sunshine, we had to go East of the Cascades. Joshua did quite well on the car ride and it was a delight [...]
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Joshua started out the week working with Ben again, as a Floortime Player and Joshua connected quite easily. While Joshua played on the spiral climber, Ben was right there, coming down after him. Joshua did some parallel play with some other kids and was referencing not only the kids, but the adults interacting with him. [...]
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On the last Saturday before the last week of camp, Rosemary White offered a Parent/Child camp which both Bryan and I were thrilled to attend with Joshua. We had a great time and both of us benefited a lot from the guidance of Alek and Annie, who have had a lot of experience working with [...]
Joshua transitioned from Danielle to Keri this week as his Floortime player, and Ben, this Friday. He did numerous activities, engaging both with his players, and with parallel play with his peers. One activity he enjoyed was having toys “slide down” a spiral track for cars and he and some other children would take turns [...]
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I apologize in the delay of this post. At the end of Week 2, it was Joshua’s birthday and the kids and I went to see Uncle Bill and Aunt Toni, and cousin Dani, in Cle Elum, to ride horses. I will post on that next. We’ve been busy…. Joshua was paired up with Danielle, [...]
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Joshua ended up having a fever and a chest cold for Tuesday and Wednesday of his first week at Summer Camp. I was so bummed as I really want him to get the most out of this experience. His first day back, he had a new Playtime Player, Jan, who was quite experienced and even [...]
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Today was Joshua’s first day of the 2011 Pediatric PT and OT Services DIR Floortime Summer Camp! I was a bit nervous over the weekend, as he had come down with a cold. However, since he had no fever and was acting like normal this morning, away he went! Joshua was excited to get out [...]
I got a note from CPS a week ago, Tuesday. It involved the incident when Joshua escaped out of the gate with the faulty latch and ended up down the street a few weeks ago. I got a call from a Public Health nurse who discussed the concerns in the report, and will complete an [...]
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So many things have been happening the last few months. Where to start… The last visit we had with Dr. Beighle was a great appointment where we were able to get some more tests on Joshua to see how he was doing with his Vitamin D levels as well as other allergies. It turns out [...]
