Ingrid @ October 4, 2009 # One Comment
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’ve had some bedtime issues where Tremendo wants to keep playing way past his bedtime (8:30 – 9:00pm).
Tonight in order to have as stress free [...]
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 [...]
Ingrid @ January 15, 2009 # One Comment
These past couple of months Tremendo’s conversational skills have been emerging. I’m quite pleased to report some back talk.
Me: “Put your shoes away.”
Him: “No!”
Me: “TV is all done.”
Him: “Don’t touch the TV!”
There was also this…
He spent quite a long time working on this one because he didn’t figure how to make limbs that were not [...]
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. [...]
Ingrid @ May 7, 2008 # One Comment
I saw this You Tube video sometime near the end of last year and it really affected my perspective about what autism really is and points out some of the arrogant beliefs that our society seems to express toward all people it feels “superior” to. This video helped me see the hidden biases I [...]
