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Category Archives: Diagnosis
Behavior Plan For Parents of Newly Diagnosed Autistic Children
Behavior Plan For Parents of Newly Diagnosed Autistic Children: by Lei Wiley-Mydske Your feelings about autism are constructed by living in a world that fears and stigmatizes disabled lives. Your distress about an autism diagnosis are most certainly because … Continue reading
Preoccupation with another layer of autism stigma: Crap…this goes deep!
I have been preoccupied with the ideas of self-advocacy lately. I am so motivated to delve into this – to understand more about the developmental components and the building bricks that will support the skills of advocacy. I know… I … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Arizona TASH, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Positivity, connections, Diagnosis, label, Laura Nagle, Neurotypical, perspective of others, promote social understanding, self-advocacy
Tagged AspieKid, Autism, awareness, development, intense interests, Laura Nagle, OT, PDA, Perspectives, preoccupation, public display of autism, self-advocacy, shame, Special Interests, strategies, Tragedy
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1…2…3… Magic!! Christy Clark needs a time out!!
87%… That is the result. I sit tonight on the brink of an abyss of sorts… and I stare into the darkness – with unknown demons on the move. It sounds like the setting for some cool video game that … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, BC Teachers Federation, Christy Clark, Diagnosis, Distributed Learning, Parent, Public Education, School Based Team Meetings, Special Education, Speech and Language Therapist, Teacher
Tagged Aspergers, Autism, BC Liberal Party, BCTF, Christy Clark, communication, diagnosis, Master of Education Degree, Numbers, Special Education, struggle, teacher, Time-out, Twisted rhetoric, Underfunding public education
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Enlightenment and the passing of time
You know… I was reading one of my old journals the other day (a recurrent theme of late, methinks) and I came across an entry from when we first were learning of the diagnosis of autism for H. The entry … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Diagnosis, Journey
Tagged Autism, Buddha, diagnosis, Enlightenment, hope, Nirvana, one step at a time, Sensory integration dysfunction, sensory stim, stim, struggle
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Diagnosis: AUTISM … part 2
Like any parent, I don’t want to focus on the differences in my child from a deficit point of view. Although I know that I must be realistic in addressing areas in need of development if H is to be … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Aspergers, Autism, Diagnosis, mentor/apprentice, Parent, Vygotsky
Tagged acceptance, Aspergers, Autism, competent adults, development, Eustacia Cutler, parents, relationship, social understanding, teachable moment, Temple Grandin, Temple Grandin's mom, think differently, Vygotskian, Vygotsky
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Diagnosis: AUTISM …part 1
Every so often I am contacted by parents who hear about me through their sister-in-law, or are friends of a friend, or they know someone who knows me, and they need support in the midst of the diagnostic process… or … Continue reading
Efforts in increasing Autism Awareness: an AA intervention…
When H was first diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum, I remember my own parents expressing concern about the potential limitations that a label like this would put on my child. There was a time when a label was considered such … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Behaviour, Diagnosis, Journey, label, Social cognition, Social Thinking, Star Wars
Tagged accessible, Autism, cognitive skill, handling change, intuitive, label, Modelling behaviour, Neurotypical, Perspectives, socail thinking, social world, Star Wars, strategies, struggle, success
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School Based Teams, IEPs, and a Parent’s Journey with Autism
I have been reflecting over the past week about how important it is to me to share the experiences that I have had parenting a child on the Autism spectrum. So many of them have been positive, and although they … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Diagnosis, Grief, IEP, Parent, School Based Team Meetings, Special Education, Teacher, Tears
Tagged Autism, IEP meetings, Special Education, struggle, teacher, team
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Thirty Days of Autism 