Julianna’s Moving Up Day is today and I can’t believe how fast the time has flown and how much she’s grown.She’s wrapping up 5th grade, and her 2nd year in a general education classroom with minimal support. I can’t believe we are headed to Middle School but here we are! I think about our …
I recently saw a post like this in an Autism Facebook Group and it just broke my heart. The comments were coming fierce and fast. “Awww kids are so mean” “My biggest fear for my boys…” “That is bs! The rule in my daughter’s class is, every child gets an invite or …
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Are you afraid to HOPE for your Baby on the Spectrum? Not knowing what was possible, I took my daughter with Autism from nonverbal, to sign language, to potty trained (using a sign for the potty), to making sounds, to word approximations to speaking. Today she is 11 years old, chatting up a storm, in …
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I remember when Julianna started to change. It was shortly after her 1st birthday where I started to notice a shift in her mood. She went from a happy engaged baby who said her first word, “MAP” (She loved Dora the Explorer) at 9 months to what seemed to me as a child at …
When I took a pregnancy test in the past I was either pregnant or I wasn’t. There was no half 2nd line … one line meant “no/negative”, 2 lines meant “yes/positive”, even if the 2nd line was faint. You see anything you are. Period, end of story, No debate. But with Autism even though …
Hello Warriors! 2 days ago I did a poll in my facebook group asking who is struggling with potty training and where are you at. To my absolute surprise (or not), within an hour I had over 100+ responses. All from parents and caregivers stating that they are struggling with potty training, they’ve tried and …
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It’s not about the Money I’ve recently spoken to several families who wanted to learn more about working with me. As soon as we discussed the price their knee-jerk thought was “I can’t afford that” or “That’s too expensive”. And as someone who has come out of poverty myself, I can …
What is your Priority? One of the biggest obstacles to parents not getting Potty Training or Communication done is not about their inability to teach a child with Autism, but their DECISION to not make it a priority to get these life skills done. Parents might say they want nothing more than a …
Meet Mary and her son Joseph. Joseph came to me at 7 years old. Non verbal and needing to potty train. Because he did not have communication skills he was also acting out. Mary was over changing dirty grown up pull ups and spending money on them, too. She was also DESPERATE to have a …
“They don’t want to play with me…” There was a time I didn’t think this day would come. When Julianna started Kindergarten she was speaking. I wouldn’t describe her as this overly chatty child but I thought we had arrived. Julianna went from Non-Verbal to Sign Language to Potty Trained, to Speaking. Our Journey had …