Tag: self harming behaviors
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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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Why Certain Stores Get All the Public Therapy Lovin’
Because of the nature of what we do when we are working therapeutically with Tony in public, more attention grabbing behaviors from him can and will happen still…even if we are currently on an upward slope of considerable improvement. We are sometimes really pushing the boundaries of what he can tolerate. In stores right now,…
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Finally PT
Miss E, Tony’s previous physical therapist, left the clinic where Tony was receiving PT around the same time as that organization was pushing forward with some business model changes that I felt would lead to clinic conditions that would be less productive for Tony personally. I of course support their rights to move in whatever…
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What These Eyes See
When Tony and I have gone out into public spaces, eyes are almost always upon us. The eyes of those who saw our screaming son rip an earring out of my ear when I was putting him on my shoulders outside of a local Safeway a few years ago, and mutely watched as I squatted,…
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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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Preventing Risk Assessment Horror Stories in the Car
My friends and loved ones, I nearly sent out a notice today saying I was taking the next few weeks off so that I could focus on surviving the holidays. There has been so much going on, I’ve been fighting through seasonal allergies that brought the gift of mild sinus irritation… and I am just…
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Public Therapy Give & Take Part 1
For many months now we have been leaning into the blustery fury of one regulation storm after another for Tony. A year- an entire year- where we barely had time to gasp furtive lungfuls of calm before the next significant event plunged us into a wave of behavioral turmoil. Many points I had to fight…
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Some Therapy Tie-ins
This week’s post is all about tying up a few therapy notes loose ends. I strive to be comprehensive enough in each post to adequately address an issue and be useful to those who may need to try similar strategies or techniques. However, some of this past month’s topics were already long enough on words…
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“You Would Cry Too”
For years, I have lived in a state of hypervigilance. So many seemingly simple moments for other families are packed with opportunities for my son to be seriously harmed. Some things Tony does because he either lacks a more complete understanding or currently can’t hold onto what will happen to him if he succeeds in…
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“I Don’t Like It”
And no, I’m not talking about the La Usurpadora reboot. Although if I were to be asked, I’d have to confess to thinking that Gabriela Spanic was pretty iconic as the twins in the production she starred in, and therefore no other Paola need apply. Sadly, as much as I’d rather be talking about plot…