Friday 27 July 2018
Capturing photos of our kids
It's the end of the school year. The obligatory school photograph has been ordered. But honestly our kids never look great in them. The staging of photos is not something that works well with either of our autistic boys and as they are growing I'm aware that if we are going to record their history in photographic evidence, we can't rely on posed shots at school or necessarily on holiday either.
Labels:
autism parenting,
photos,
review,
services
Wednesday 25 July 2018
Can you guess the correct meaning of these words? A vocab lesson from my moony son
Anthony makes great observations. His latest one made me smile. He looked up at the afternoon sky and said "I can see the moon - in the day! It is very bright, yes, it's very moony this afternoon."
Labels:
Autism,
education,
language,
salt,
wetalkmakaton
Thursday 19 July 2018
The wait for an autism diagnosis
Imagine your child reaches three years and still doesn't say a word. They don't point to anything, comment or smile. They sit and repeat patterns of play over and over again and get upset if they are disturbed. You have some suspicions and after chatting with a health visitor you think... may be my child is autistic?
Labels:
ASD,
autism diagnosis,
diagnosis,
EHCP,
NAS
Thursday 12 July 2018
Dear Fortnite, please bring back Playground Mode
Dear Fortnite,
Please bring back Playground Mode in the next update - it makes the game accessible for my autistic son.
Labels:
Autism,
fortnite,
games,
MummaGames,
online,
playground,
worries
Tuesday 10 July 2018
When Sports Day is little to do with sport
I loved Sport's Day when I was in Primary School. Why? Because in many ways it was one of the few places I fitted in.
Thursday 5 July 2018
Helping our kids learn through forest breaks
When I was younger, I didn't really see the point of a lot of things I learned at school. Algebra and fractions were something I needed to know about in order to do my maths homework and science was mostly about trying not to get experiments wrong.
Wednesday 4 July 2018
An amazing England penalty shootout for our autistic son
Sunday 1 July 2018
SEND and SpectrumSunday 73
Labels:
linky,
SEND,
SpectrumSunday
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