One Family's Adventure In Raising An Autistic Child
Joshua has begun a new phase to his development. He’s learning about time outs. We received a note from his teacher regarding earning a timeout at school for invading another autistic child’s space during circle time. This particular child doesn’t like being touched and Joshua, who likes to “make a big splash”, and has been [...]
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Wow! I haven’t written in quite some time. So much has happened in December and now we are in a new year! Bryan, my DH, got a job in Spokane doing computer work he has been doing with his own business for the last 3 years. He’s so excited to have the opportunity to grow [...]
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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 got an exciting call at the end of August from Doreen Hunt, an Occupational Therapy at Children’s Therapy of Woodinville http://www.childrenstherapyofwoodinville.com/Our_People_OT.html, the same location as Joshua’s speech therapist, Amanda. Doreen was looking for children on the autism spectrum to be a part of a research study conducted by the Spiral Foundation in conjunction with [...]
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I took the kids to go see my brother, Bill and his wife, Toni and their 20 year old daughter, Dani, at their ranch in Cle Elum over the weekend. We had visited last July and Joshua spent the majority of his time upstairs under the bed or playing in the closets in our room. [...]
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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We got a Living Social deal a few months ago, with the Picture People to get family pictures done, a $108 package for $18. Sunday, we finally went to have pictures done. It was quite the experience as we hadn’t done family pictures with Joshua before, sad but true, it’s been that long. The last [...]
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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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I have been reading a book by a nutritionist and dietitian named Judy Converse, called Special Needs Kids Eat Right: Strategies to Help Kids on the Autism Spectrum Focus, Learn, and Thrive http://www.nutritioncare.net/pages.php?id=10. I had checked it out of the library and although I hadn’t finished reading it before having to return it, I was [...]
The kids and I took Bryan to see Toy Story 3 in 3- D, for Father’s Day, thanks, in part, to his parents as they had given us gift cards for the movies. Taking a family of 6 to the movies now a days costs a pretty penny! It was the first time either Michael [...]
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