The Basic Course on the DIR/Floortime Model is online again!
Ingrid @ February 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Online Basic Course on DIR/Floortime model will run from March 12th – May 9th, 2010.
Even if you’ve already read
The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow
Ingrid @ August 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Dr. Temple Grandin is possibly the most famous autistic person to date. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow is a Horizon (BBC) episode about her life, which mainly deals with how she’s been able to cope with the difficulties inherent in Autism as well as use her unique abilities to craft an exciting [...]
Positively Autistic
Ingrid @ August 11, 2009 # 2 Comments
Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it’s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren’t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1:
The lack of positive [...]
How to End a Floortime Session by Sweet Coco
Ingrid @ May 19, 2009 # 2 Comments
How to End a Floortime Session:
Step 1. Be really excited that Mami is playing with you.
Step 2. Realize that you need to pee.
Step 3. Fight it with all your might and keep playing.
Step 4. Ignore Mami’s suggestion that you need to pee.
Step 5. Pee in the bookcase when you can’t [...]
Homeschooling Lowers Costs In Time, Money, Stress
Ingrid @ March 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Here’s a little article that succinctly sums up why homeschooling works for us: Why Homeschooling Lowers Costs In Time, Money and Stress.
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Book Review: Making Peace With Autism
Ingrid @ February 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Making Peace with Autism: One Family’s Story of Struggle, Discovery, and Unexpected Gifts by Susan Senator is a memoir of the Senator family’s experience with their eldest child Nat, who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Senator’s compassionate writing style takes you from Nat’s infancy until his adolescence.
Making Peace with Autism is [...]
Floortime Online Training Course
Ingrid @ February 23, 2009 # One Comment
The Basic Course on the DIR/Floortime Model will be available online for six weeks from April 1 through May 13, 2009. I have wanted to do take a Floortime course for some time. It’s exciting to see that it will be online- that’s my kind of class.
I’m not sure if I’m going to [...]
Can You Please Stop Being So Rigid???
Ingrid @ February 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So Tremendo and I were finishing up school when I took out our alphabet flash cards and proceeded hold them up, name each letter and wait for him to repeat after me. He looked past and around them and reached toward the food flash cards that I use with Sweet Coco. I keep insisting with [...]
Einstein: The Autism Connection
Ingrid @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Three years ago, before Tremendo was diagnosed with Autism, various people would tell me not to worry. “He’ll talk when he’s ready, You know Einstein didn’t talk until he was three.” I didn’t find much peace in that knowledge because I was too worried about how hard my life was at the time. [...]
Regarding: “Autism’s Road to Recovery”
Ingrid @ May 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here’s an article from the Chicago Tribune that gives a brief synopsis of the Autism/Cure debate. Up until few months ago, I didn’t even realize this was a debate. My honest assumption was that a cure meant: “alleviate some of the physical symptoms and suffering”. I never thought about “re-wiring” the brain. [...]