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The Importance of Fitness for those with Autism

Physical activity was easy when they were young …
OOCH World

Ooch~ Sounds like something you say when you stub your toe or bite your tongue doesn't it? Well, while it may be true that something needs to be muttered when you find the chair leg with your foot in the middle of the…
Reducing Unnecessary Anxiety with a Routine

Friends of ours recently asked their 5 year old son and 3 year old daughter what they wanted to be when they grew up. Their son said a firefighter, their daughter…Cinderella . While many children at that age d…
Using a Fork

Ryder has really been working hard at learning how to eat independently using utensils. Above is a clip of his triumphant stabbing of a helpless mandarin orange. He loves to pose for cameras too!
Poop

Everyday turns up another poop story. We're getting good at cleaning up bathtub poop. There is a small window of time where we can leave Ryder in the bathtub to play before he decides to drop friends off in the pool.…
He needs to walk

Yesterday, I went to help my son, Brandon who experienced another grand mal seizure. After he fell, he repeatedly hit his foot on a tile wall and badly bruised his toes and the top of his foot. Of course, every part…
Services for Adults with Autism

I found a great review of the Autism Society National Conference which is worthy of sharing if only to demonstrate that the concern about lifelong services and support is not limited to the families we come in contact…
Tied shoes

Like most many things that my son accomplishes he does it quietly and without fan fare.. he learned to tie his shoe laces! For the better part of the last two years my husband made it his mission to show my son the tr…
Life 101

This was especially written for parents who have children/adults with autism and special needs. We all remember as we were growing up that our parents told us what to do. They taught us what was dangerous, what to s…
Showering Tips and Autism

As a child and teenager, I was terrified of showers. I didn’t take my first full shower until the summer before I went away to college, because I knew the dorms didn’t have baths. Everything about the showe…