Tag: Autism and flexibility
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Coloring Marigolds and Other Early November Moments
November started with me plucking crayons like petals from a Ziploc bag, handing only one at a time to Tony, who colored an image of marigolds in short bursts while I talked to him about Dia de los Muertos. Coloring marigolds seemed more suited to our son’s current fine motor abilities than sugar skulls, which…
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“Behind the Mask I Wear…”
Perhaps some of you may not have thought about it, but some of you may have given your imaginations brief rein to fill in the largely unwritten subtext of last week’s post. What does it feel like to stay awake entirely for one night and for parts of multiple nights after that holding and gently…
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A Little Community Safety Creativity
This summer has been serving up extra helpings of heat that just seem to keep coming. My patience has long past its fill of this weather, but these extra toasty temps just keep stretching up and on far higher than I want every time I look at the forecast. I have for many months felt…
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Troubleshooting Telehealth Therapy
I had the pleasure of catching up a bit with Gena on the phone yesterday while Emily did some therapy work with Tony. I enjoy our conversations so much I barely registered that we had been talking for nearly 45 minutes before I had to end the call to participate in an OT telehealth session.…
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Floating Trough a Flood of Changes
I was talking to our son’s geneticist today (who is sadly, accepting a new job elsewhere this summer- sob!!!), and we were discussing how hard changes can be for Tony. She commented that the kinds of changes we have all been experiencing in our communities can be hard for anybody. When a kiddo has as…
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Catching Up With NMT
Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) has had an important role in our son’s progress, helping him to acquire skills he was not able to gain with the other therapy modalities. Tony has been receiving services at NMTSA since July of 2015. In that time, he’s worked with 5 therapists, many of whom moved on to higher…
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A Year of Gifts
So much of the gift giving in our communities is concentrated and condensed into days of prescribed celebration. But some of the best presents have trickled in bit by bit this past year, oft ill-wrapped by other circumstances and generally unannounced by fanfare, tags, or cards. Perhaps they are small compared to what some would…