my girl. Olivia. So sweet. It’s saturday morning and the darling is still asleep, 9:29am. This is not an everyday occurance. But, every once in a while she does this. It is ironic, because she went from SUPER OVER stimulated last night at a loud pizza restaraunt to sleeping until 9:29am. (which in our house [...]
Posts Tagged ‘autism’
Autism girly, from UP! to down.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, children, family, autistic spectrum disorders, autistic children, autistic behaviors, developmental disorders on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Anyone in here Autistic? Great! Nice to meet you.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, Autistic, autistic spectrum disorders, children, family, non verbal children on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Living a life with an autistic child can, at times, feel like an isolated existence. Ironically, if you think about the characteristics of autism, which include social impairments, then I suppose you could call the whole family Autistic, right? I say this with a chuckle. (Only endearment here!). Anyway, I was just reading another [...]
An Olivia Phenomenon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, children, developmental disabilities, families, family photos, photos on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Jackson was absent this afternoon, Josephine was napping and so Olivia and I sat in my room for about an hour “talking”. She sat in front of me on the bed and stared into my eyes, and I talked. I practiced some of the speech techniques that I learned from her instructors… modified slightly by [...]
We are Autistic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, autistic spectrum disorders, children, family on July 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On Wednesday, Olivia had her long awaited visit to The Marcus Institute in Atlanta. It is a clinic solely devoted to treating, evaluating, diagnosing, servicing children with developmental disabilities. To our family, it is was a trip to find the “Holy Grail” of answers for Olivia.
We sat with the developmental specialist for 2.5 hours, during which [...]
Pathetic. I’m pathetic.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, babies, children, clonidine, husbands, risperdal, ritalin, school on October 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
what kind of person starts a blog and then doesn’t keep it up??????
still wondering?
ME.
ah. makes me sick. I want people to know what I’m up to, yet I provide no updates. I appologize. Perhaps you may forgive me if I remind you that I now have 3 kids?
Well, if you must know, things are going [...]
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