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		<title>The Basic Course on the DIR/Floortime Model is online again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Online Basic Course on DIR/Floortime model will run from March 12th &#8211; May 9th, 2010.
Even if you&#8217;ve already read ]]></description>
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		<title>Almost ready.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alphabet]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve been busy getting everything together for the first TEN lessons of the Preparatory Curriculum from letteroftheweek.com.  I&#8217;m only up to Lesson 3 so I won&#8217;t be back until I&#8217;ve finished all ten or we start the first lesson- whichever comes first.


© copyright 2009 www.renegade-scholar.com Almost Ready
Almost ready. was first posted on February 3, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a beautiful night here.  I am grateful that all three of my kids can say &#8220;Trick or Treat&#8221; and &#8220;Happy Halloween&#8221; this year.


Hope your night was as fun as ours.




© copyright 2009 www.renegade-scholar.com Halloween 2009
Halloween 2009 was first posted on November 1, 2009 at 7:30 pm.&#169;2009 &#34;Renegade Scholar&#34;. Use of this feed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Night, Princess.</title>
		<link>http://renegade-scholar.com/communication/good-night-princess/</link>
		<comments>http://renegade-scholar.com/communication/good-night-princess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pretend play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reciprocity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Tremendo has been quite taken with The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker video game.  There have been many squabbles with Kamikaze over game cube time.  Because of this we&#8217;ve had some bedtime issues where Tremendo wants to keep playing way past his bedtime (8:30 &#8211; 9:00pm).
Tonight in order to have as stress free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow</title>
		<link>http://renegade-scholar.com/autism/the-woman-who-thinks-like-a-cow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s been able to cope with the difficulties inherent in Autism as well as use her unique abilities to craft an exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positively Autistic</title>
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		<comments>http://renegade-scholar.com/autism/positively-autistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren&#8217;t exposed to.  Some wonderful quotes from clip 1:

The lack of positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That time of year, Homeschooling in MA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right about this time of year is when a lot of Massachusetts Homeschoolers send in their letter of intent to the local school district.  Basically, Massachusetts requires that parents send a letter of intent every year before the start of the school year in September stating their desire to homeschool their child and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorings</title>
		<link>http://renegade-scholar.com/art/colorings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[handwriting without tears]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of coloring over here.  Tremendo has started coloring and writing some letters too. The letters he&#8217;s written so far are M, L, and the first letter of his name.  He really likes M and L because of Mario and Luigi.  We&#8217;ve been working with Handwriting Without Tears&#8216; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to End a Floortime Session by Sweet Coco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 04:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home-based therapies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech delays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Greenspan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s suggestion that you need to pee.
Step 5.  Pee in the bookcase when you can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ketchup Bloodbath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Floortime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensory Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIR Floortime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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