How do you use an Obsession?
Like most parents who have a child with ASD, I had read all the books I could find and each of them said “use their obsession” but no one explained what this meant.
ASD
“Oh Bless Him” – “Oh Bugger Off”
please, when you see him do not say “oh bless him”. The number of people who say this is unbelievable. It’s as if everyone thinks that because his eyes don’t work, his ears have stopped working too. He can hear you!
The Days After The Diagnosis
So much is written about how to get a diagnosis; what the criteria is for a diagnosis and what to do when you don’t get one but little is written about how it feels to get the diagnosis.
Lists, Bullet Journal and Autism
However, this week, we realised how much impact my love of lists has had on my son.
How being literal can bring real amusement
We ended up on the hard shoulder so I could let him look down my throat and see for himself that there was no frog down there.
4 things Animal Crossing New Leaf is helping my son with ASD to understand
My eldest son has autism. He finds the rules of social interaction challenging, to say the least. Animal Crossing is helping us hugely with social interaction, finance, responsibility, dressing, thinking about other people and shopping.
Top Tips for SENCOs
I have been approached by a magazine and asked for my views on the following: How should SENCOs involve parents in the decision making process and plan for their child? What can SENCOs do to improve co-production and communication in general? What types of questions do you think parents will be asking of SENCOs over…
What is Respect?
As a parent of three children with a variety of SEN and Disability, I often said “I just wish they would show me some respect”. One day I was challenged to define what I meant by Respect, so I went to several parents like me and asked. This is what they said What else would…
Reality checks – necessary evils?
The last few weeks have been full of harsh reality checks; those moments when reality just slaps you hard across the face. They hurt. One of the big ones was the sudden unexpected reappearance of my gorgeous boy’s coping mechanism for anxiety. This is something we haven’t seen for almost two years – we are…
Bank Holidays and Motorways
Why did I think driving 300 miles on a Bank Holiday would be a good idea? Why did I think Bank Holidays and Motorways would ever be a good combination? My day started badly when I was setting up the kids DVD players in the car and managed to lock myself into the back seat….