The Ask Deb About Autism blog doesn’t try to solve the world’s problems. I’m not a scientist, autism therapist, Rhodes Scholar or the like. I am a mom. A mom who is caught in the world of autism. Autism came into our lives in 2002, officially, although I suspect it had been there for [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2008 by admin
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All autism therapies are crucial in helping our children, especially early on. Today I am focusing on one that can help early and even later in development. Pragmatic speech therapy is just as crucial as any autism therapy. If a child doesn’t understand the language he or she is learning to speak, then what good [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by admin
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Wow! This week, its back to school for most of our kids. And it is at this time that most of us take a breath and consider: is my child’s IEP working for them? Is their autism therapy, teacher, classroom setting, etc. appropriate (yes, we know that word all too well, don’t we?) for our [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by admin
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We made it through another holiday season. This year was wonderful. We were able to make it through Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year’s with hardly a scratch. No autism therapy, no special trips to a therapist (for mom either)! It was a good year.
New Years Eve was spent playing Wii Disney Trivia with our boys. [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by admin
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