Can I take my autistic child on a flight? As we are seeing the first glimmers of the summer I thought I would write some posts speaking to our experiences with the boys traveling, on vacation or generally out and about. With all the airlines slowly coming back to life, I wanted to share [...]
Conor goes canvassing with Hildegarde: Autism power! Hildegarde Naughton at work For anyone that knows Val and I, they will know we place huge importance on making sure our boys stay active in the community and understand the importance of giving back. And where best can anyone do this, than to participate [...]
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Opportunity comes in strange places Many people today ask me how I knew the boys were intelligent as toddlers. I remember back in those early days when the only difference between the boys’ assessments were the degree of how bad it was going to be. And by this time in my career, I had spent over [...]
Language is about life and life is for living I was working with a family last week and taking some time to understand how the ALL Toy Story (Disney / Pixar) learning content was working with their young autistic son. We had started working with this young boy some weeks prior and the data [...]
As parents of language deficient children we know how incredibly isolating this condition can be. Yet a great many children with this and related disorders like autism can be highly visual and with the right strategies can participate in and grow from exposure to sports. While our boys were clearly very visual, they were globally [...]
Feel you can't go shopping with your autistic child? As parents of language impaired children with the kind of behaviors that this brings, I frequently get asked about family activities. We all live in a society that is constantly checking the P's and Q's of life, what is acceptable and what is not. Despite all [...]
School and the Autistic child. A lot of families in our group connected with me over the summer about choosing a school for their special needs child. So I thought this would be a good topic for my next post. One of the most important decisions any parent of a special needs child will [...]
Your speech therapist and developing language. When Val and I look back on the boys' early years, we could remember several specialists who provided communication therapies to the boys. But there was a core to the boys' problems. When you cut through all the behaviors, the anxiety and the confusion one thing was clear. Behind [...]
