Friday is Halloween (in case you didn't already know from the proliferation of scary commercials on tv and the candy in stores). The holiday that most kids love presents special challenges for a lot of kids with autism. For everyone to have a happy halloween, families have to accommodate the needs of the child with [...]
If your autistic child is like mine, holiday shopping is a bit, well, challenging. Unlike "normal" kids her age, Bridget likes so few toys. She mostly likes her computer and her videos, and her books. She has a few toys that she likes, but buying toys for her is really rolling the dice on whether [...]
The holidays are fast approaching and that means…’tis the season to take pictures! Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas or Hanukkah mean way more picture taking for most people than at the rest of the year. But getting good pictures can be especially challenging with an autistic child. As a scrapbooker (and life-long photographer) I found the [...]
Image via Wikipedia This idea came to me via my favorite productivity site, Lifehacker, and when I saw it I immediately thought that it seemed like a great adaptation for someone with autism who needs to think of time in a more concrete, touch-and-feel, way than on a calendar. Michael Hunger needs to bill time [...]
My daughter (five years old) likes to move constantly, even when she is sitting. She just needs the extra sensory stimulation it seems that rocking or wiggling or fidgeting provides her. This provides a problem in trying to find a chair that is both safe and acceptable for her. We tried for awhile to have [...]
