Posted in Parenting, disabilities, education, family, kids, life, tagged assistive technology, autism, chatbox, PDD-NOS, ted on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
sunset 002
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
Ted finally got his very own Chatbox 40! We started off with just 24 symbols for now.
At first, he just kept pressing ‘pizza’ over and over. But after one session with his speech therapist, he got back into the swing of things. His therapy sessions, he used it effectively to communicate [...]
Posted in disabilities, education, family, kids, technology, tagged assistive technology, autism, chatbox, PDD-NOS on May 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Talk To Me Technologies
My son’s Chatbox 40 XT was ordered! Not only is Talk to Me Technologies getting us the Chatbox, we are also getting our own copy of Boardmaker, we are getting a laminating machine, too! We will be able to use everything right away!
The trial period was great, and this is the perfect [...]
Posted in Parenting, disabilities, family, kids, life, links, tagged autism, disability, Parenting, PDD-NOS on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Parents are autism’s hidden victims
Children have autism, but parents are often invisible casualties. Their child’s disorder ricochets through their lives, breaking up marriages, draining bank accounts and robbing them of sleep. University of Washington researchers found these parents, among all with disabled children, suffer the highest levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, and parenting stress.
I [...]
Posted in commentary, education, kids, tagged autism on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative – New York Times
We have your son. We will make sure he will no longer be able to care for himself or interact socially as long as he lives.
— Autism
So I called the man behind this and told him that my sons are not held hostage. [...]
Posted in commentary, disabilities, education, family, kids, life, tagged autism, disabilities, PDD-NOS, ted on November 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Link: Growing Up With Autism – Newsweek Health – MSNBC.com.
Autism strikes in childhood, but as thousands of families like the Boronats have learned—and thousands more are destined to learn—autism is not simply a childhood disorder. Two decades into the surge of diagnoses that has made autism a major public health issue, a generation of teenagers [...]
|
My Twitter Page
Riding the Short Bus
Posted in Parenting, commentary, disabilities, education, family, kids, tagged advocacy, autism, disabilities, education, family, kids, Parenting, PDD-NOS, ted on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They changed the pick up point for my youngest; he now gets picked up in front of the house, not across the street. So today I got to see him as the bus pulled away. He looked at me briefly as they buckled him in, and then looked straight ahead. The thing about a [...]
Read Full Post »