It’s not all about fancy therapies and learning to help your autistic child to “interact” and “engage”. Sometimes just having some good old fashioned fun with your autistic youngster is in order. If they happen to be developing critical skills while you’re doing it, so much the better.
According to an article by Elizabeth Scott on [...]
The world at times is a wonderful and inspiring place. For our family, the world was much more than that this week. Our son made sure that it was by quite simply achieving more than anyone thought he could at this point.
Not only has he continued with his counting, he now counts everything (up to [...]
Please Dear God tell me this didn’t really happen! A ten year old Autistic elementary school student in Ft. Myers Florida has been arrested and is now awaiting trial on charges of battery on a public or private education employee.
WTF!?!
Not only is this child too young to be brought up on formal charges for a [...]
The U.S. Special Court has ruled that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine does not cause autism or other neurological disorders. The court cites years of scientific research in its ruling (read more here).
I know that there are a lot of parents out there who are angry and disappointed at this ruling. I am [...]
While I have not had to deal with placing our autistic son in public schools yet (he’s only two), I have had to deal with the special education needs of a child with extreme bipolar disorder and will very soon have the issues of a very animated child on the spectrum to deal with. If [...]
