Posts Tagged ‘autism behavior’

While I am waiting for my husband to get home with dinner. Domino’s Pizza!! I so love the Philli Cheese Steak Pizza hold the fungus!! My son is a bread stick nut!! He keeps asking every 5 minutes is daddy home yet?? LOL  Read more...

Well I guess today was one of those bad days we get sometimes. Dakota woke up at 3:30 in the morning from a nightmare. That poor kid seems to get a lot of nightmares. At 4 AM he decided it was time to take a shower and start banging things around. Well it made for an early morning. Not too mention that Brittany was up and down all night long. At 5 AM Dakota was bouncing off the walls and trying to jump from his table to his bed. Sigh… gotta love the sensory needs. So I gave him his morning meds early and he fell asleep until shortly after 7. I am glad he got a little more sleep as I worry about sleep deprivation and his seizures. He was really excited as today the first graders went to the zoo.  Read more...

A fellow twitter friend gave me an idea for a post. My son has went through different types of therapy. I would like to share my experience of each of them with you. When we first found out he was on the autism spectrum the developmental therapist suggested that we get Autism In Home Therapy. I didn’t realize at first everything that went into intensive therapy. Wow 30 – 40 hours a week for 3 years. I realized Dakota needed the help so we started with Wisconsin Early Autism Project aka WEAP. We stayed with them for a few months. The reason was they did a lot of repetition and confined him to one room to do the therapy. Fridays we would have a team meeting and my son would cry. He didn’t like repetition. So I called my case manager and we found a new company. Now I don’t think that WEAP is a bad company at all. I think it is better for a child or person who has low functioning autism with all the repetition. I am not saying that my son didn’t make any gains with them either. If I recall he did make gains.  Read more...

As a parent or person with Autism what do you find that you struggle with most?

As a parent of a son with High Functioning Autism I find that we struggle with communicating feelings, some social issues, as well as some regression.  Read more...