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Category Archives: facets of autism

how do you do it each day?

Each day moves forward without prompting. We start when the rest of the kids leave the house.  8am – four kids off to school. 8:30 breakfast and clean up 9:00 play time 9:30 exercise period 10:00 study math 10:30 break 11:00 spelling lessons 11:30 – 1 lunch 1pm grammar and reading. 1:30pm. done for the day For exercise we use games on the Wii. When it gets warmer, we will go outside. We also have an exercise bike. Three times a week, we try to have an outing of some kind.  Go to the store, a cafe, bank or whatever. Our day varies depending on his temperament and how he is responding.  Because of the severity of the ADHD, the above schedule is very flexible.  Some days we might not get started until 11am and might get done at 1.  We work when he is able to focus and function.

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Houston, we have a successful launch

While we didn’t launch any rockets today, it was none the less, a success.  Why? Well, David got upset because one of the sibs didn’t want to play with him.  We have a rule, that when a sib calls David’s name a certain way, then David has to stop what he is doing and come out to the living room for a few minutes. Well, a sib called his name a number of times, and David didn’t think that he had to listen to and obey the rules.  So he ended up on time out. Now the time out rule is that the quicker you settle down, the quicker you can return to have fun.  Normal time-out length is one minute for each year of life, but we don’t start the time out until after his is calmed down.  He ended up not being able to play for most of

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It was the most amazing day!!!

Today was fabulous, our youngest son, who has OCD, ODD, Autism traits, and a Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as severe ADHD spends each day with me.  Usually we hang out at home working on school work, and playing games on the computer. Today one of my girls had an appointment in the city so he went with us.  I can honestly say that I can’t remember ever seeing him so well behaved. He sat there with me for an hour and a half. No complaints.  This from a kid who can’t sit still for five minutes without moving around.  He claims he is feeling ok.  Not so sure about that, but it was fabulous to not have to spend even 5 minutes repeating his name over and over again trying to get him to behave. Incredible. Celebrate the little things! Tweet #fighting4answrs

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