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“Calm comfortable mother most important determinant of outcome”
My Dad recently sent me an Audio Digest CD to listen to with a 3 page article titled: Autism: A developmental Pediatric Perspective From Pediatrics Updated 2009, presented by Phoenix Children’s Hospital Ruan D.… -
The Birds and The Bees... and ASD
A year or so ago, I read a thread on an Autism Sprectrum Disorder (ASD) forum lamenting the lack of hard data concerning sexuality and gender in Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Then, I heard Dr. Tony Attwood talk at a confer… -
iCommunicate - Social Stories iPhone App
I was chatting to Lisa from GraceApp on Twitter one day about how I wished there was an iPhone App I could use to write Social Stories and Lisa said there was – iCommunicate. Lisa very kindly helped me get in… -
The Amazing Melatonin
We started Annie on the Melatonin last week. It has been amazing the difference it makes. Bedtime has been far less stressful and Annie is now usually asleep by 9pm. No more partying till 11pm or midnight. Annie was not… -
"What are you doing?" Trailer: Autism Awareness
I’m incredibly excited about this film: What are you doing? Trailer from Autism Awareness on Vimeo. From their website: “What are you doing?” is a short film, created by Autism Awareness, which aims t… -
Intensive OT Time
We are doing a weeks worth of intensive OT with Heidi after school for an hour each day. It took Heidi about an hour of intensive OT to calm down after a very wound up day. Certainly seems like she has hit sensory overl… -
Autism Parenting and Tough Times.
This is a tough post to write, recently I had a reader ask about autism and medication and it looks like soon we will be travelling the same route. Annie and I had much fun on Friday tripping around the city to visit th… -
When sensory seeking behaviour goes very wrong
So today, after a fun 90 minutes at the park with Daddy, my girls came home and headed straight out into our backyard to play. I warned them against playing with water, as I’d already cleaned up wet & slightl… -
Calming the Anxious Aspie
Last week we visited our OT (Occupational Therapist) to discuss Annie’s experience with tracksuit pants and stockings. Additionally I hoped to find some calming strategies to help my anxious girl. It was a fasci… -
Aspergers, Anxiety and Emotions Part 2
Part 1 is here. Next up in our series of emotion collages was ‘Loved’
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- About Me: I am Marita and I blog at - http://leechbabe.wordpress.com/. I am a mother of two amazing girls, Annie and Heidi. I am a wife to wonderful man called Ralph. I am myself, diagnosed with Crohns disease in my late teens, interested in cross stitch, sci-fi and fantasy. This blog started out as a cross stitch blog but has evolved over the years to cover most aspects of life in my home. In May 2007 my youngest daughter was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism.
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