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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Sensory Activities |
| jdcaldwell |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2011, 11:44 am
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| My 7 year old son has mild Aspergers and severe Sensory Processing Disorder. Right now he is jumping into couches, spinning like a whirling dervish and running into walls. The school sent home a list of "sensory activities" for him to do, but it's mostly just a list of vague names for the activities... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: big, big, BIG changes |
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Posted: 25 May 2010, 2:41 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Awesome suggestions everyone! The town we're moving to is only a half an hour away from where we are, so I've already driven past the house a couple of times with him, and I've talked to the special ed. director here and she's going to see if he can be enrolled in a "summer school" program there for... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: big, big, BIG changes |
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Posted: 24 May 2010, 5:34 pm
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| Okay, so as if the end of the school year isn't enough for a 6 year old with AS (which believe me, it is enough) We are going to be moving in a few weeks, not only to another house, but also to another town, which means next year he will be in a new school, with new kids, but I'm getting a little ah... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: If my life were a movie, he would be the narrator |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2010, 4:38 am
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Replies: 5
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| Sorry it took me so long to get back, thank you guys for your posts. He is almost 6. I love the tape recorder idea. I think he would really like that, maybe not so much the writing part yet, but definately the recording. and sinsboldly, I had to laugh when I read your post, because he says the exact... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: If my life were a movie, he would be the narrator |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2010, 7:57 pm
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Replies: 5
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| My son (AS) is a talker, he is constantly chattering away, from the time he wakes up to the time he falls asleep. Everything he sees, everything he thinks, and everything he hears comes right back out of his mouth, often punctuated with "mom, mom, mom". When he watches cartoons, he'll often repeat w... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: now he's possessed?! |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2009, 6:41 pm
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Replies: 36
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| I didn't get the feeling that she thought her son was possessed at all. It seemed to me that she was responding just as you or I, or any sane individual would... hands up in the air in gobsmacked amazement that anyone could be so deluded! Personally, I like the feedback someone made earlier on this... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: now he's possessed?! |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2009, 6:33 pm
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| Yes. But I got the feeling she herself was on the verge of believing her Preist/mother. If so, I saw it as my duty to stick up for a fellow autie. And that's something I will always do. The problem is not religion, but damaging beliefs. Something those atheistic communists you mentioned certainly h... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: now he's possessed?! |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009, 9:57 am
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Replies: 36
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| Perhaps it is easier for her to accept that there is something wrong with him taht can be fixed by something as easy and fast as "laying on hands" than to accept that he is just different and no less for it? I thought the same thing when she called me. I just wanted to clarify, i'm not confused bec... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: now he's possessed?! |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2009, 8:09 am
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Replies: 36
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| Thank you guys for your posts. This is a very confusing situation |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: now he's possessed?! |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2009, 7:12 pm
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Replies: 36
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| I'm sure as parents of children with AS or ASD you guys have heard a lot of things about why your kids are the way they are. I have had to develop a thick skin, because people want to blame me for my son't AS. My mother-in-law finally stopped accusing me of using drugs and/or drinking while I was pr... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: meltdowns at school |
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Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 3
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| my son is on his second week of kindergarten, and he has done pretty well, considering how he usually reacts to change (badly). Anyway, I got a call from the special ed director today and it seems he had a meltdown towards the end of the day. No-one can remember exactly what it was about, but he did... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: I'm a little scared |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2009, 10:21 am
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Replies: 12
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| It makes sense that it would be attention seeking behavior, and Callista, I think you were right about the inability to generalize, because the second time I explained to him that it's not okay to try to make people cry ever, rather than focusing on the specific behavior, and he hasn't intentionally... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: I'm a little scared |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2009, 3:56 pm
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Replies: 12
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| so you guys are probably tired of hearing things like this, but I'm just not sure what to do. My 5 year old, Dorian, (AS) and my two year old, Gabriel, share a room, and we don't have a choice about it, because we live in a 900 square foot house with 2 tiny bedrooms. Anyway, the other night we had p... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Young AS kids and toilet time (questions about #2). |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2009, 1:28 pm
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Replies: 6
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| My son was the same way. He would sit on the toilet and scream (and I don't mean cry, no, he would literealy SCREAM, like someone was chopping of an arm) it was very traumatic for him to poop. he would go days at a time. one time we had to give him a suppository because he was so constipated from ho... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did you or your aspie child have a traumatic birth? |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2009, 8:47 am
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Replies: 26
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| my son was born 2 weeks late, but other than that I was in labor for 6 hours, the delivery was textbook, there was no trauma (other than the normal trauma of birth) and he was perfectly healthy... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Imaginary friend? |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2009, 8:28 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,063
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Lol, I love that "I command you to do it now"
my son says things like that too, and I almost always have to stifle a giggle.
That's a good idea though. I wouldn't have thought to turn his imaginary friends into allies. |
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