Posts Tagged ‘asd’

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No child should ever have to suffer becasue they have anxiety and stress. What’s really important is knowing and understand the signs of stress as well as things that can help accomodate them to feel less stressed.

Children with autism respond to stress in the same way as anybody else. The only difference is that stress is a greater problem for students with autism because they experience severe stress far more frequently then what most people do and they are not able to deal with stress as effectively.The reason for this is they have fewer resources in dealing with stress as they may not recognize it.  Read more...

Well this morning was beyond crazy here for us. Dakota was fine when he woke up and he got dressed for school and I don’t know what happened but he ended up in a frenzy. I have this little open space as I call it a hole in my kitchen. It’s a little cubby space I suppose you could say. My heater for my kitchen blows out there. Weird space I know.  Read more...

I am so very upset and frustrated as I write this post. I am hoping that someone who is in my shoes and dealing with autism or even a special needs child can give me some adivce or tell me your in the same shoes.

This morning I took Dakota to school. When we get to school it’s always my throat hurts and my tummy really hurts. Well I started asking what makes him so upset about coming to school. His response was I miss you, Brittany, and Sugar Bear. I explained to him that he had to be in school. Well then the nail biting began. He is so full of anxiety and stress his nails are really bitten down.  Read more...

Well I got a call from Dakota’s teacher today. The boy Dakota has been having a conflict with had another issue at school. We don’t know exactly what started it. One of the kids that told the teacher said that Dakota said to the kid He was annoying him and the other kid punched him. That came from a kid who stuck up for Dakota.

Now Dakota said that the boy wanted to play guns and he said NO. His said his teacher said we can’t play that in school. I couldn’t understand what else Dakota was telling me as his speech was not clear. I know that the kid punched Dakota in the arm.  Read more...

I get a lot of questions about how I knew Dakota had autism and when did we see the first signs. Honestly I don’t remember how the word Autism ever came up. I don’t remember if my husband said something to me that caused me to search Autism. I really don’t remember.

When Dakota was little he use to bang his head a lot for no reason at all. That became a concern to use so we brought it up to our pediatrician at the time. We had him checked many times for an ear infection and most of the time he didn’t have any. So we just chalked that up to maybe a behavior of some sort.  Read more...