Autism, regardless of age, is challenging on the best of days. The teen years can be very challenging due to hormones, the desire to fit in, etc. for a typical child. There is hope, however, for helping your teenager with autism thrive in her surroundings. You simply need to think outside the box and make some adjustments to make her the most successful. Making her successful as a teenager is…
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I’m Not Observing Autism Awareness Month This Year
A few years ago, I wore blue because a Facebook friend asked people to wear blue and take a picture for her to show her son. Guess what? I forgot to take a picture! Did I not care about autism anymore? Hardly. I’m just too tired. You see, for about a year my son has progressively gone down hill. In August I called a local autism center at the recommendation of…
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How long should you let your child dictate writing assignments?
How long should you let your child dictate writing assignments?As a parent of a child with autism who hates the feel of pencil on paper, this is an ongoing question I ask myself. Am I handicapping him by allowing him to dictate his writing assignments? Will he ever be able to write an essay on his own? These are legitimate questions when you look at the big picture of your…
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Why Autism Families Should Know About IRun4
IRun4 is an organization that matches a person who has special needs, a warrior sibling, a veteran or someone who has passed away with a runner. Once matched, the runner’s purpose to run becomes their buddy! The runners I have spoken with have all told me that,now that they have a buddy, their running, training and workout time has felt like it is about something much bigger than themselves. They…
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Hearing Health Basics For The Entire Family
I bet you know how to treat a scrape or scratch that your child gets from playing outside. You probably know just what to do if your other half get a bruise from work as well, but do you know what to do if someone in your family suffers from a hearing or ear health issue? Probably not, but you can find out by reading my post below. Cleaning your…
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5 Ways to Find Your Child’s Developmental Level
Developmental level is a phrase that is important not only in homeschooling but in autism as well. The number one piece of advice that I give to people when they ask me about homeschooling children with autism is to forget their actual age. They all look at me crazy and say what? Seriously , forget about their chronological age (actual age at the moment). Spend some time playing with them…
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Let’s Visit The Salvador Dali Museum
The Salvador Dali Museum is located in gorgeous St. Petersburg, Florida. The museum is relatively close to Sunken Gardens, Tropicana Field and Raymond James Stadium. The building as well as the art make it a can’t miss stop when in the area. It also houses the largest collection of Dali’s work outside the three museums surrounding his home in Barcelona, Spain. It should come as no surprise to anyone…
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Is It Possible For Family To Be Your Ministry Field?
Family ministry doesn’t sound as glamorous as jetting off to be a missionary in a foreign country. Lots of times when people think of ministry, they think of missionaries, pastors or clergy. Ministry also conjures of images of serving other people you don’t directly know or meet with regularly. Why? Why can’t your ministry be to the people who share your dna or are indirectly related to you? Now I…
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Celebrate Your Pokemon Lover With A Pokeball Pizza!
There are few things that have remained consistently the same over the years here in Autismland. Dinosaurs, animal documentaries and Pokemon have never gone by the wayside like Blue’s Clues and Thomas the Tank Engine. The move to Arizona helped us engage him in his love for dinosaurs. The invention of Pokemon Go! a few years ago has turned many people into Pokemon lovers. Why not celebrate the Pokemon lover…
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Why We Took 2 Years Off From Formal Academics
When we made the decision to pull Logan out of public school near the end of the second grade, he was a wreck. Emotionally spent from trying to keep up the public school pace as well as navigate the social nuances of his same age peers. Peers that he was not at the same place developmentally. He would come home and retreat into his world of autism just to get…
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