Autism and families

Jun 19, 2007 07:23 AM

Sometimes the stress of having a child with autism is enough to make you roll over and die. I just read this article in the NY Times about one of the families involved with running Autism Speaks, one of the biggest charitable and research organizations out there. The conclusion: it's just too much to deal with sometimes.

Presentation on autism

Jun 09, 2007 02:31 PM

I haven't written much about this since some entries earlier this year on the sensory learning program. No sign that sensory learning had any positive or negative impact at all (except that it cost a ton of money). Ah, well. Anyway, this is a video of Marty Murphy talking about autism. Take a look.

Anxiety

Jan 30, 2007 10:21 AM

Tuesday ... day 8. We went for the morning appointment, and they added a deep blue/violet color. Khalil burst out that he loved the color, then immediately started asking, "Are we done yet?"

Days 4 & 5 & 6

Jan 28, 2007 06:43 AM

Took me a couple days to get around to posting updates, so I'm going to briefly post about Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Day 2 and 3

Jan 24, 2007 09:45 PM

So, today was day 3. I'll run through some of the details of what happened ... the good news, Khalil dealt with yesterday and today much better. We'll have to see how things continue to develop, since they say tomorrow is the day things will start to get rocky.

Day 1 of Sensory Learning Program

Jan 22, 2007 03:05 PM

Today was day 1.

Sensory Learning

Jan 22, 2007 02:51 PM

Not long ago, Veronica and I saw an interesting special on television about a new treatment for children with autism and aspergers called sensory learning. I've not written about it here before, but our son has Aspergers. He's a wonderful, brilliant child, eleven years old now, but he also has all of the classic Aspergers characteristics, and both school and life in general has been a struggle for him.