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Sensory School Supply Shopping

Now that the school year is drawing in close, it's time to get school supplies for many of us. As we do this, I wonder how many of us are on the watch for things that are "sensory friendly"? I'm not necessarily talkin…
Perhaps You Can Relate?

As David’s mother watches her two-year old sleep, she often fears that “that tomorrow could be the day that autism will take more away of him and less will be there when he wakes.” For this mother, au…
Alphabet Soup

It started with the drain. A couple of weeks ago, Ryan became obsessed with yanking the drain stopper out of the bathroom sink. We kept telling him to leave the drain alone, but that made him all the more insistent t…
Dos and Dont's of Flying with Children on the Autism Spectrum

We just flew for the first time since Pudding was diagnosed with an ASD almost two years ago. However, it is definitely NOT the first time we have flown with a child with autism. Before we returned to the US, we wer…
Book Review: Dietary Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dietary Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Why They Work When They Do, Why They Don’t When They Don’t. By Kenneth J. Aitken Available from JKP and Amazon. There is a great deal to praise about this…
The Phenomenon of Autism

Earlier this week, I spoke at one of our local Rotary clubs, about David's Gift. I love speaking at Rotary meetings. Rotarians are such warm and giving people and they are always a great audience. But this time I noti…
Early Intervention Procedures Study

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released some encouraging news (see below) regarding studies on Early Intervention for children on the Autism Spectrum. Their studies are showing what many of us have already k…
"I'm just Lydia, thank you."

Labels are important. They describe a person to other people (tall, short, athletic, writer...). This is true for diagnostic labels, too, because when you say "so-and-so has autism," then the doctors have a picture pa…
AUTISM: It's Who I AM

I was reading something my friend posted on Plurk the other day, about scientists creating autistic mice. I had read about this in the paper, and wasn’t really convinced by the whole thing. However, I do find a…
Asperger Syndrome and Depression

I'm finding it hard to think of a way to introduce this, because it's such an important topic to get right. How is Asperger Syndrome (or any other autistic spectrum disorder for that matter) possibly going to lead to…