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Snow Day in Autism Land
The bus is not coming today, and there will be no Wednesday afternoon swimming after school with the home therapist. He’s not venturing out to our home today. Eagerness to play outside as the winds...
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Finding His Calm
What is the function of the behavior?I can’t tell you how many times special education teachers, therapists and behavior therapy experts have asked me that regarding why Lil D does the things he does...
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It was Everything
Lil D using the flippers on his hands.On our sixth (fifth, or was it the seventh? Who knows? I’ve given up counting) snow day, when it was deemed too unsafe for busses to drive kids to school but I...
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Autism Road Trippin’
Lil D lying down in the back seat, arms drawn in, hood up, spinning his beads, at the end of a very long road trip.The whole summer was leading to this moment, this trip, this foray back into autism...
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The Here and the Now
We sat and played scrabble on the futon in our “cozy” New York City apartment. She was a new bride, as was I. I was even more newly pregnant with our first child – just a few weeks and on bed rest. My...
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