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Crayon Craft for Tactile and Sensory Seeking Children

Ingrid @ March 18, 2012 # 2 Comments

My kids each went through a phase where they would peel and break crayons. When I was a new mother I was slightly appalled at this. I hated coloring with broken crayons as a kid. I found however, that my kids either didn’t care about coloring with broken crayons or they didn’t care about coloring [...]

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Watercolors and Crystals

Ingrid @ November 22, 2010 # 2 Comments

Highlights November 14 – November 20, 2010 Sunday It’s a slow day today. Kamikaze spends a few hours playing outside and then goes to friend’s house. Sweet Coco watches a DVD about kittens and then paints with watercolors. Tremendo takes advantage that Kamikaze isn’t home and enjoys full use of the PlayStation. Vic and I [...]

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Highs and Lows: Weekly Review November 1 – November 6, 2010

Ingrid @ November 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet

This weeks high’s and lows in which we discuss an awesome day, handwriting, and assumptions made about non-verbal children: Tuesday Awesome day today. I finally put together the new picture schedule of our day for Tremendo and everything flows nicely. Tremendo’s speech therapist is really happy with his involvement today. All of today’s transitions go [...]

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Your Brain is a Rain Forest

Ingrid @ July 31, 2010 # One Comment

This is a great article explaining Neurodiversity with an awesome analogy which conveys that the human brain functions as an organism versus its typical comparison that it functions like a machine. The article is an excerpt of the book Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences, by Thomas Armstrong, [...]

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The Ketchup Bloodbath

Ingrid @ April 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Things have been really busy here. My grandmother passed and so we had to make a couple of trips to see her. The boys are full on into their spring fever mode. I have noticed that every spring the kids go into big time sensory seeking behavior. Last year, I had the flu (I had [...]

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