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Conversations with Bitty, How Far We've Come

Bitty asked me one evening as I took him upstairs to tuck him in for bed, "does me hab schoo tomowwow?" I couldn't help but smile, his wording is too cute but it is also an indicator of just how far he's come with h…
The Pop-pop Story

Jack: Tell me the Pop-pop story. Nana: You want to hear what Pop-pop's doing? Magical Nana has come for a visit. And whenever Jack and Nana are eating a snack or getting in the swing, Jack says, "Tell me the Pop-po…
Conversational Milestones

James is starting to have conversations with us! His SHAPE assistant had been encouraging him at preschool in the afternoons to do this, and he has responded to her in a wonderful way. At home, it had not been showing…
Echo Echolalia: "That's a house"

Pudding has a new script as we drive in the car. She looks out of the window at the buildings. When she sees a house, she repeats: That’s a house, and you remember this house. And then we pass another house,…
Autism Understanding and Acceptance - in Video Form

Sometimes a blog post just can’t properly convey how a conversation would go, so I decided to put together this little video as an example conversation between two parents. I’m quite happy with how it turned…
A very special interview

Today’s post is a very special one! Yes, it really is! Today is the day I write and publish a very special interview, one I’ve contemplated writing for sometime now. I wanted to raise some awareness, not o…
Life is the key to decyphering Autism

A “cipher (or cypher)” is essentially a scrambled up message that requires a “key” to unscramble it. For example, if you used 1-26 instead of a-z to write out a message. You’d take t…
NAET Helps Shannon Converse

I watched “Shannon,” my Aspie daughter, at a New Year’s Eve party talking to a peer. She responded with the appropriate emotion to what the other girl was saying, and nodded and smiled at all the right…
Longest Conversation to date

Ryan and I just had a conversation. I think it was our longest conversation to date. I showed him the heating pad I've been using on my knee (the latest derby-related injury). I said, "Wanna feel something warm and…
Diction

“Can we watch dah ceptions?” “Deceptions? What’s that about? I don’t’ think I’ve ever heard of that before?” “Yes you know.” “I don’t, hones…