Help with parenting an Autistic Child who cannot speak
Conor and Eoin were not speaking so they needed speech therapy, right? Well, not exactly. As time went on we discovered that the reasons our sons were not speaking had a myriad of causes. These conditions can exist alone, or in our case together.
Over time we started to become aware of each separate problem. And we realized that we needed to understand and treat all issues preventing speech and language. Much like joining links in a chain.
More about our story here
Ultimately we discovered the boys were suffering from several issues which affected all of the primary language centers in the brain. This lead to a dismal future prognosis, of our boys not talking. Below are a number of parenting posts that shine light on our search for a solution. We have compiled these posts to help other parents understand the problems with children who are not speaking.
I hope this will be of help to you, feel free to contact us about your child.
Enda, Val, Conor and Eoin
Once Conor and Eoin were able to communicate they progressed and developed rapidly.
Flying with your autistic child: tips
Can I take my autistic child on a flight? As we are seeing the first glimmers of the summer I thought I would write [...]
Helping kids with autism to speak their mind: RTE brainstorm
Helping kids with autism to speak their mind Opinion: Today Enda Dodd talks about the tools which have helped his kids communicate a way [...]
Understanding Autism And Sport
Understanding Autism and Sport For anyone who knows Val and I, or follows our blogs on special needs children, they will know we place [...]
Conor goes canvassing with Hildegarde
Conor goes canvassing with Hildegarde: Autism power! Hildegarde Naughton at work For anyone that knows Val and I, they will know we [...]
Autism conquers ocean racing
Conor takes on the sea: autism conquers ocean racing! As many of you know, Conor and his sailing team had been busy preparing for [...]
Autism no limits, Conor takes on Galway Bay
For those who are regular readers of my blogs, speaking about the abilities of autistic children is a common theme. And in many of [...]
Our speech and language success has had much to do with a wonderful team of teachers, advisors, speech therapists and behaviorists
Just because your child is not talking, doesn’t mean they can’t speak!
I have never met anyone who has re-conceptualized language learning in the way Enda and his team has.
This is something I have always thought could be possible, it is wonderful seeing this research come to life!
The Disney approach h
as been extraordinary particularly in the teaching of social and emotional language.