Posted in Parenting, disabilities, education, family, kids, life, tagged assistive technology, autism, chatbox, PDD-NOS, ted on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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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 Parenting, disabilities, education, family, kids, life, photos, technology, tagged chatbox, pddnos, ted on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Originally uploaded by Kibbles
Tomorrow he gets his chatbox! We’re so excited!
Posted in family, kids, life, photos, tagged lorakeets, niabi zoo, ted on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Feeding
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
Ted and I had a blast at the Niabi Zoo, despite the WRETCHED weather. More pictures if you click on this one.
Posted in brooklyn, disabilities, kids, photos, tagged brooklyn, family, PDD-NOS, photos, scooter, ted on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
teddyOriginally uploaded by Kibbles
We just bought Teddy a new scooter, here in Iowa. This was taken in Brooklyn, years ago. He’s not using it much here, and I am not sure of the date this photo was taken. That’s kind of important because there was a date where he was a bit more [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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