The Quiet Crisis Next Door

Tag: Impulsive behavior

  • Using ABA To Calm Some Chaos

    Anyone working with our son quickly finds out that he wants everything to go exactly the way he wants it to go 100% of the time…and that he is very determined about trying to arrange things to get exactly that. There are many reasons of course why that cannot be encouraged, ranging from the fact…

  • Needs To Stay

    This is not a post designed for artistic eloquence, but rather one where I am speaking as a mother directly from my heart to the Arizona State Division of Developmental Disabilities, Governor Ducey, and all those responsible for funding disabilities services in this state. Whatever else we choose to leave behind from the emergency phase…

  • A Little Bit About Article 9…

    Much of my time feels like it’s not really my own right now- paid or unpaid- so I’m going to keep my words and explanations here as stripped down as possible.. A question could be posed after reading last week’s post: why would being a temporary direct care worker covering our son’s habilitation hours increase…

  • Some Things Are More Important

    I am rarely at a loss for words to write or say. Our current local surge of COVID infections has left me wading through a dim bog of uncertainty. Far too many in our communities have lost loved ones, others are still battling for their health, and many people have lost their jobs…so I feel…

  • 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…

  • Picturing Community Safety

    At the meeting place of Tony’s growth rate, his sensory differences, the profundity of his Autism, his intense impulsivity, and his heavily delayed risk assessment beats the heart of some of my deepest fears for our son’s future. We remain racing against time, have been engaged in every strategy we can think of for years…

  • No Such Thing as Medication Salvation

    This week, our story drops through the words of two songs of the same title, spliced and stitched together to help me animate the remaining fragments of my scattered thoughts. My moments this past week have been filled and stretched to the point where my own artistry just may not be enough to bring this…

  • 365 Days a Year of Things to Fear

    When I was young, our family often watched reruns of The Twilight Zone. Black and white memories of commonplace scenes twisting through sometimes terrifying deviations floating through the time warp of a 43 year old mind- faces and images frozen in grief or compounding horror. We are taught to think there is a firm line…

  • Every Day is “Groundhog Day”

    They say life isn’t like the movies, as if every day’s agenda will be definitively pulled from a drop menu of easily parsed platitudes. Some days can not be bound by such lists and assumptions. Entire years even can be unrestrainedly defiant of them. In this house we have been given a different script to…