Archive for the ‘Early Intervention’ Category

So you’re probably wondering what the Seagate Free Agent Theater HD Media Player has to do with autism. Well, I’m about to tell you. It helps with speech therapy, which I blogged about yesterday, and self-help skills which I will be blogging about later. Read on to see how it helps and what the Free [...]

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 [...]

So we met Juliet’s speech therapist a couple of days ago. She seems really nice so hopefully Juliet responds to her. I still can’t believe that we have to do this all over again. When the initial evaluators were here, they tested her for autistic behaviors and she did fine there. I’m pretty confident that [...]

So Juliet had her eval for Early Intervention yesterday. They were here for two hours! I was completely drained by the time they left. You would think I would be used to it after all I had to go through with Jake. Anyway, she was really good the whole time. She was very social with [...]