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Social Stories, Scheduling and Pragmatic Speech

Here is a list of some of my favorite posts dealing with social stories, schedules and pragmatic speech. The resources at the bottom of this page are a basic place to start. Turn to the Helpful Websites on this blog fo…
The Early Morning Coffee Stop

Our early schedule is crazy, but it works. We're getting our system down and it gets us all where we need to be on time or even (gasp) early! Schedule revolves around needing to get James' Dad to a commute bus stop 20…
Summer Occurences

Readers, readers, I've neglected you. Life has been too full of road trips and popsicles, pool visits and evenings on the porch. And in the spirit of full disclosure, I'm finishing up copy edits on a book manuscript. S…
The Parable of the Chest of Drawers

Every year around the start of the cold damp weather, I have a drawer that keeps sticking. It's in a tall boy I keep in the attic, very close to the skylight so I guess on one of the many times I forget to close the sk…
Side Effects

One of the things that Nathan suffers from (besides me, ahaaaa! Oh...I slay me) is seasonal eczema. His skin gets very dry and scaly. Now, common wisdom would have me put on some sort of skin cream to keep his skin mois…
This is A LOT of Therapy

When I received our schedule for this coming week, it hit me for the first time that this is A LOT of therapy. So I thought I'd show the world what a week in our lives is like. I'm not doing this to complain, just…
Regression in Behavior During the Holidays

After a consistent period of watching your autistic child progress – making more fervent eye contact, functioning with much more versatile language, and socializing with more ease than discomfort – have you…
The best laid plans

My husband is out of town, spring break for the kids is coming to an end, and the weather has decided not to cooperate. Last night I made a plan to have today go smoothly. I had even planned to write a kick ass blog e…
The Schedule

Mandy of Mommy Musings wrote a great post about her daughter's schedule. As a mom with horrible ADD, a schedule is my nemesis. Throw in Ava's sleep disorder and therapy all day long, each day is a struggle. Looking…
Special Needs Kids and Summer Travel Plans

As summer is now under way, parents of special needs children are planning trips of various kinds: some day trips close to home, long distance trips to theme parks, visits to family and so on. There are special fac…