Tag: autism
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Isaac and Autism- 3 years later
I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since Isaac began ABA (his 5 hours of therapy 5x a week). He’s been doing this same program for 3 years, 900 hours in total. He’s not even 6 yet. Having special needs kids, it can become easy to focus on the grief, and difficulty that come along…
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Open heart- talking to kids about Autism
I recently had the opportunity to answer questions for a elementary school class about Autism. They had excellent well thought out questions and a question I knew would be there was: “If you could take autism away from your child, would you?” My answer is no. Isaac is almost 6 and Luke is 4and has…
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Brothers on the Spectrum- Isaac and Luke
It’s been an interesting six weeks. Three weeks ago Luke, our middle son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. It’s taken me a few weeks to process all of what has happened. Long story short, we had some concerns about him, spoke to his doctor, did a LOT of paperwork, he had an assessment, he…
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Isaac and Autism- doing a new thing
It has been a solid month sense Isaac has began ABA therapy amongst his other 3 therapies he was weekly. In total, he has 28 hours of therapy a week. It’s a lot for an adult much less a toddler. We are just beginning to see cracks in walls of understanding who Isaac is and…
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