Tag: Oppositional Defiant Disorder
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No Such Thing As Therapy-Free Sick Days
Even when all of the scheduled therapy sessions have to be officially canceled for an illness. Tony woke up one day this week with a cough sounding like a seal bark, and as a mom who nursed Hannah through several bouts of croup when she was little, I felt pretty confident that I recognized what…
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Habilitation Thoughts & Thanks
The last habilitation therapist to work in our home was a lovely young woman. I really liked her. She had never worked with the developmentally disabled. Had no educational training, no knowledge of the therapy types or techniques. I trained her myself on Tony’s programs…personally I care more about someone’s ability to be patient and…
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What Can You See?
I’m going to start this off by asking that my loved ones who recognize the situation below make no comment. I will not be giving any identifying information because my aim is to educate and nothing more, and I will definitely strike down any public comment that doesn’t honor the spirit of that. Once upon…
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Our Therapy Goals Path Going Forward
This past May, I started creating my own programming for Tony’s community safety and public therapy goals as his habilitative therapist. This was necessary as his ABA team had recommended working on a completely home-based program and public outings with their therapists were limited at their request. Yet, our ongoing need as a family for…
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When Community Safety Makes My Heart Sing…
For a few months now most of Tony’s community safety walks have been handled entirely by me acting as his habilitative therapist. Using differential reinforcement and a parental enforced consequence for pushing (the non clocked in parent would tell Tony that any pushing would result in him loosing kindle privileges for 2 minutes when we…
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Celebrate Every Little Thing Like It’s Big
The stress in my life lately has been palpable and ravenous, requiring the delivery of an increasing diet of effort, guzzling sleep while leaving behind far too many regurgitated memories of middle of the night hours. Last night was the first night in several days I slept more than 6 hours. Tony was awake a…
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Our Current In-Home ABA Programs: A Brief Overview
Currently, our ABA programs are focused on skills that are being both practiced inside and outside of the home. This week, I am going to give a brief overview of the in-home therapy programs. Although everything we are working on matters, the bulk of our time is spent working on skills necessary for Tony to…
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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…
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Making Up With Chaos
Truth is, I planned on writing about a different topic this week. But at this point, I’ve tried to drown my frazzled in about half a cup of Cherry Garcia and not quite managed to fully find, rescue, or resuscitate my tranquil…so I figured this was as good a week as any. Even when I…