It’s been a long six years on the road of autism management: all the worry and research, good days and bad days, therapist after therapist, drive after drive, french fry after french fry, and having so many ideas and information but not having real life-changing answers. I did a DNA test for Gavin in June …
My youngest son is six years old, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, with sensory processing disorder. He loves riding in the car, more than most things, and we often go to a park every single day, rain or shine. I have been to a ton of places, and realized one day that I should put …
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I haven’t posted in a long time. I have a lot of unpublished drafts that never made it to the finish line! I guess for the past months, since late fall really, we have been home a lot more and at times that was stressful. G loved going to the park almost everyday and we …
We used to live in a world where we ate according to what was available during the seasons in the region where we lived. We preserved food in order to not die of starvation and ate a variety of foods that some kids (and adults) would not imagine eating today. (Liver and onions, anyone? No? …
G has a scoop of protein powder in his food once a day. I keep thinking – what exactly is in it, and could it be better? And in fact, all of us in the family should have this powder daily. So I am making this post to finally dive in. First I am going …
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Many of Portland’s Western Red Cedar trees are dying due to climate changes. In the park near our home, it has happened to many of them in the past twelve months. The only good thing that came out of it was The Stump. One particular stump we found is now “our stump” and L and …
Gavin has never had GI problems. He usually makes a bowel movement a few times a day and he has always been like this. He was only constipated a handful of times in his five years of life. For this reason, we don’t believe fully that he has any problems with his gut. We tried …
Some children with autism should undergo ongoing screenings for apraxia, a rare neurological speech disorder, because the two conditions often go hand-in-hand, according to researchers. It’s estimated that one in 68 children in the United States has autism and one to two in 1,000 have apraxia. Please be aware that just because a child with autism is nonverbal does not mean …
It’s Friday and our first week of homeschool is done. I teach L downstairs on M/W/F, and grandmother M teaches him T/TH. (That means we alternate being with G on those days so it’s been really good for both boys.) After L makes his bed, eats breakfast and brushes his teeth, we head downstairs to …
I was going through photos and found an old screenshot of a kindergarten checklist before L went to kindergarten. I remember when I read this and didn’t really think much about it. But I kept it to refer back to. Turns out, almost three years later, I am reading it again and thinking about Gavin. …