Archive for the ‘school’ Category

1. Be nice to everyone! This really hits home for me because of my son. I’m always worried about him getting picked on by other kids because he has autism. The kids in his last class were great, and I’m hoping his 6th grade class will be just as awesome. 2. Be proud of what [...]

Sam’s Club is having a Back-to-School event from Aug. 11 through Aug. 31 where you can find 6 Box Tops on participating General Mills products! I’m sure you all know about the Box Tops for Education program, but just in case you don’t, I’ll fill you in. Box Top labels can be found on lots of [...]

I was so happy to have found Myself Belts! I wrote about self-help skills yesterday, and this is a great way for autistic kids to put their belts on by themselves. Jake still has trouble tying shoelaces and using buckles. We are able to use Velcro shoes until he gets the hang out of tying his [...]

Ahh, speech therapy. Jake still gets it when he’s in school and Juliet just started getting it at home through Early Intervention. Juliet has some developmental delays but she’s not on the autism spectrum. Speech therapy is more than just learning how to say words. It also can include non-verbal communication like early sign language and [...]

Juliet’s first speech therapy session was yesterday. She did pretty good! At first she was being shy, but after about 10 minutes she was crawling all over the therapist. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or what, but she was really vocal. Not talking, but babbling away. We started having her pick between two [...]

As most of you know, my (almost 11 year old) son Jacob has autism. We went through a lot of hard times, but he’s currently doing great. He’s in 5th grade, and with the help of his TSS, he’s in mainstream classes all day. He’s able to do most of the school work, and whatever [...]

So yesterday I picked Jake up from school and the first words out of his mouth were “Basketball game?” Huh? He never mentioned anything about a basketball game before, so I was totally confused. It turns out that one of his teachers coaches the Jr. High boys basketball team and talked about it in class. [...]

Here’s a couple of videos from Jake’s program at day camp. He really had a good time there and I hope we can send him there next year too. It was really good for his socialization. Jake singing his new favorite song “I am a Pizza” sorry for the shaky video, I had Juliet with [...]

Jake had a good time at field day today. It was pretty hot out though and that seemed to bother him after a while.  He did long jump, a race, kickball, and beanbag toss.   Here’s some pictures from the event and a couple of videos of him running in the races. Be sure to click [...]