Last week I went to meeting between parents of ASD children and council officials involved in education services for mainstream ASD or Aspergers children in my town. I had a bit of a rant about labelling children. Some people give it a posh name: Diagnosis. As I’ve written before I think the Autism Spectrum Disorder […]
Late last summer, I was walking up the street with my children, their bikes and buggy. A young man was standing on the pavement, cutting his parents’ hedge with big electric trimmers. He was listening to music in his headphones. So he was focusing intently on his activity (perseveration?) and blocking out other stimuli (secondary […]
Today was Max’s birthday party, in a local church hall, and he came home with a huge pile of parcels. His pal Arthur (who lives a few doors away) came round to eagerly help open them. Husband recently went on a Hanen programme course called Talkability. He’s a very committed dad and hoped the course […]
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule is often called The Gold Standard for autism diagnosis. I say that it’s time for ADOS, and indeed the Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis itself, to be binned. Here’s why: 1. The term autistic describes a pattern of behaviours. Behaviours that all of us exhibit at one time or another. The […]
My little tiny baby blog, less than twelve hours old, had its first visitor last night. Welcome http://5kidswdisabilities.com/about/. I have often thought about the paralells between children adopted as a result of child protection orders and my own child’s traumatic infancy. Here is an interesting UK adoptive mother: http://www.sallydonovan.net/ Thank you for bringing your uplifting blog to […]
