In the past week three stories have come to light regarding the fact that three special needs students have been pulled from their schools due to the treatment they received at their school http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/06/21/nb-moncton-inclusion-school-isolation-room-1113.html#socialcomments Autistic child pulled from school over use of Isolation room http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/06/23/nb-inclusion-terry-lynn-551.html#socialcomments 8 yr old with foetal alcohol syndrome, cerebral palsy and […]
Last Week of the First Year of School
So we are soon to be starting the summer. A period in which my wife has full intentions of doing everything in her power to increase our son’s ability in speech and writing and we will monitor and hopefully curb some of his violent tendencies when upset. My wife is having some incredibly luck in […]
The Changing Faces of Autism
Over the years there has been several additions to the autism spectrum that have led to a varying of the belief and understanding of what autism is.Among recent additions we find amongst others Aspergers and various others classed as PPD-NOS.An issue was raised in another blog I read that causes me some concerns and it […]
Update
We are now going to start working on this blog again. To update the situation at present our son is developing some words, they are not clear but they are definitely there and if you listen you can understand what he is saying or reading as is more generally the case. Last night he sat […]
to parents of newly diagnosed autistic children: do not be afraid
To start the history a bit our son was diagnosed as non-verbal autistic meaning on top of the general autism traits our son also could not talk and so had no method of expressing himself Three years later he still is unable to talk much, generally a word here or there with some minor exceptions […]