Tag: Sotos Syndrome
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“What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
Our son has what is considered to be severe Autism. Some people think that means he can’t love people, or that he doesn’t pick up on things they do and certainly that he doesn’t grasp any of the implications. He has always loved, always bonded with others. And I have never seen him bond with…
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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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Why Random Bits of Makeup…
Trust me, I know. When I talk about makeup, it’s off topic. Most people who visit my blog don’t come here to read about my makeup, what I do, how I do it, or why I do it. But sometimes we still talk about it anyways. Because sometimes, the more constructive words that I would…
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Working Around Sensory-Related Bathroom Fears
When considering what will be the most successful way to increase Tony’s ability to tolerate or be successful in certain environments whether it be with crowds or for structured activities, I have to focus on multiple elements that need to be addressed at the same time. One of the things I have noticed in the…
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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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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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Tactile Defensiveness And Water: One Approach
Even as an infant, any time I gave Tony a bath, he’d immediately fuss, quickly progress to crying, and even begin to scream sometimes as the water touched his skin. He was especially sensitive about water splashing on his face, and even a fine mist would cause him clench his body and face in startlement.…
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I’ll Take Risk Assessment Over “Singing in the Rain” Any Day…
I have always loved being out in the rain. I remember as a little girl, riding in the back of my grandfather’s uncovered truck bed as the drops splatted into and around me, M&M’s clutched in my hand, their colors bleeding out and melting, the clouds seemingly reaching down like fingers to wrap around my…
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When You Can’t Dupe Self-Care
Lately I have really enjoyed questing through my eye shadow collection to see if I can dupe looks I could produce by a newly launched palette containing a color story I like. Today I slowly moved my way through stash-shopping and creating my own variant of what is the most likely look to be produced…