“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!
Autism
Lists, Bullet Journal and Autism
However, this week, we realised how much impact my love of lists has had on my son.
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.
Don’t you forget about me…….
Earlier this year, we had a really rough time as a family. With the death of an aunt and a beloved grandad within 4 weeks of each other, my husband tried to cheer me up by buying tickets for us to see Simple Minds at the O2, supported by Ultravox, on 30 November. For the…
Today – the parent perspective
Many years ago, before I really knew what I was doing with videos (and before I was lucky enough to be gifted with an I-Mac), I put together a compilation of the every day things families of children with disabilities go through. The every day things which may be in one set of case notes…
The Magic Blue Pill…..
I spend so much time with parents and often hear how they would like a magic blue pill to make everything better. Here is a letter to my children about a magic blue pill. I would like to start with saying though that my children do not have health issues which involve many many hours,…