tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:24:04 +0000I am writing this blog in support of the National Autistic Society's "make school make sense" campaign.http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-1267711733476157070Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:42:00 +00002008-07-25T13:25:45.547+00:00Hello again,autys Dad here again. This week has reaffirmed my belief that in autism world, the simpler the task/event, the more enjoyable for all concerned. Finally the sun was shining and we had some quality time in the garden and local parks playing football, on the swings etc. Trying to go to a family day out place like Sea World or Tower of London would have been a nightmare. We have tried http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/07/best-things-in-life-are-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-6505068630960735087Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-07-02T17:36:34.131+00:00Good afternoon,just found out that Rain Man is coming to the West End starring Josh Harnett. I think this is bad news for anyone in the autistic community. My reasoning's are that many peoples perception of autism is based purely on the RM film. So many people have asked me what my little autys "special gift" is? Some are genuinely disappointed when I say he can stare at doors for hours or has ahttp://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/07/rain-mans-revenge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-4722737010105914013Wed, 21 May 2008 07:48:00 +00002008-05-21T15:07:21.001+00:00Good morning,long time no write. Auty is doing great and we have managed to stop the horrendous screeching whenever a car goes past when we are out for a drive. This was done by a lot of patience and basically whenever it happened we stopped the car and had a chat or simply turned around and went home. This was after he knew we were going to a place he wanted to go to i.e. the park, indoor soft http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/05/bupa-10km-run-for-nas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-3176554220796879275Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:24:00 +00002008-02-11T16:13:52.284+00:00Hello,dad of Auty here. Just want to see if anyone else has any experience of this (new to me) phenomenon. Basically, when we would go in the car anywhere, auty would be perfectly happy looking out the window and enjoying the changing scenery. Now however, anywhere in a car is a nightmare. Basically, whenever a car passes by, going in the opposite direction we all hear a whooshing kind of noise. http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-know-song-that-will-get-on-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-860559019716266421Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:24:00 +00002008-02-04T10:02:23.981+00:00Hello again,apologies for delay in writing but I had a birthday with a zero on the end!! Anyway, its back to school time and auty appears to be enjoying full-time school. He has been swimming and gone to a local farm too. Now he is getting "homework" which is only listening to a book being read, but he does appear interested.I have mentioned before that his piercing scream was slowly being http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-beautifull.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-7917492209256323981Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:54:00 +00002008-01-07T13:11:18.660+00:00Hello and a happy new year to everyone!!!Christmas was fantastic and was dominated by the Upsy Daisy, Iggle Piggle and the Minky Monks. Yes, "In the Night Garden" won hands down. No games, books or puzzles, just the DVDs and on the web. Auty opened one present out of a mountain of presents and then lost interest. It was so sad to see but expected that Christmas means nothing to him and is just http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2008/01/back-to-schoolhoorayish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-1458774087028921039Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:36:00 +00002007-12-19T14:32:22.651+00:00Hello again,its a wonderful time of year and I absolutely love it. However, in my auty sons world it is no different to any other time. Ok, so its colder and he gets even more attention from family as he is "special". But, he has no interest in mountains of presents, scoffing loads of mince pies or falling asleep drunk in front of the TV. Sorry, the last one is me. : - ) It really is just anotherhttp://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/12/jingle-bells-my-arse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-5493420071160802959Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:23:00 +00002007-12-05T11:39:21.396+00:00Hello again,just a couple of things from me so far this week.Our auty son has a helper with him at all times whilst at a regular school. He is the only one in the class who has special needs and is not a wild child by any means. Not disruptive and not violent. The reason I mention this, is that the whispers of a few yummy-mummys of children in the same class are very negative. They (yum-mums) http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/12/hello-again-just-couple-of-things-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-3818179851774449545Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:54:00 +00002007-11-19T12:57:33.376+00:00Hello again and thanks for the support I have received on my blogging.!!!My little auty is mad for "In the night garden". I have to say its a nice programme but for a kid nearly 5 years old it seems a step backwards. The DVD is on most nights and he rewinds, fast forwards every minute to his fave bits. Does anyone else's children do this at all? Its not just rewinding to the beginning but http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/11/hes-got-x-factor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-990228693569137793Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:16:00 +00002007-11-09T10:45:20.522+00:00Hello,a brief blog from me this week. We tried a family night out at an organised firework party hoping we could all be together for something and not let autism win for a change, and slpit the family outing up. We arrived nice and early and tried to get familiar with the surroundings and lead up to the big event calmly. One hour later and the wheels fell off with my auty son. No interest in the http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/11/off-with-bang.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-5732324411819599527Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:03:00 +00002007-10-29T13:54:16.437+00:00Hi,been having a fun half-term with my boys. Took time off work for quality time and loved it. Have to say that the light switches are still a favourite but another trait has slowly arisen.............reflections!!!! Looking in a mirror or a shop window is a source of wonder to my special one. He will stare at himself and move slowly sideways, sometimes looking at his back, and then looking away http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/10/heres-looking-at-you-kid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-2899254422769838833Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:06:00 +00002007-10-15T15:10:21.464+00:00Hiya,back again on a beautiful Monday morning. One nice point of the week was a fly in our house!! This normally creates chaos with my son screaming and general flapping of arms. This time was different.......his simple reaction of pointing to the fly and saying "small fly". Back to playing and ignoring the fly. It was as if the last two years of utter "insect" induced craziness in our house http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-flies-on-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-7791014038989535906Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:18:00 +00002007-10-08T12:49:35.923+00:00Hi again,after a fantastic weekend I thought I would type the latest from our household.I had to take a step back over the weekend and rein in my Daddy urges to fix a normal playground situation. My sons were playing at a park and a girl of perhaps four years old spotted my autistic son wasn't quite the same. I think they have an instinct as he looks "normal" and was playing perfectly well with http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-bad-and-rugby.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-1277218248893437476Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:14:00 +00002007-09-19T12:38:41.555+00:00Hi,husband of DIL back again. At the weekend, a relation was doing a sponsored run and raising money for NAS. My boys went along to support and after boredom kicked in, the "normal" one threw a wobbler which involved shouting, screaming and demanding a balloon. This lasted an hour and my wife was asked by a stranger how long my son had been diagnosed with autism. This was despite my autistic son http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/09/public-perception-of-autistic-traits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-8194759262670293795Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:35:00 +00002007-09-07T14:16:43.883+00:00Hi,husband of DIL here. After a year of non-blogs I thought I would pick up the baton for my wife especially as a new school term has just begun for our "special" child. He is now 4 years old and began primary school this week. It is a regular school and has a shadow. This is not ideal of course but the school we wanted that handles/specialises for children on the spectrum is wildly http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-school-year-new-beginning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-115494387301295596Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:28:00 +00002006-08-28T18:57:12.976+00:00Hi All,We have been holidaying in Derbyshire for the last couple of weeks with no internet, landline or TV. The kids have been out walking and we all came home knacked. I am so glad to get back from a holiday though as my son's routine goes right out of the window when we are away. We do take our picture exchange with us and on going somewhere for the day, my husband would do a little reccie http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/08/holidays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-115204597359345380Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:30:00 +00002006-09-06T19:56:27.950+00:00Hi All,I have discovered another aversion that my son has and this time there is not a lot I can do. When switches in the house beckon, I can move things higher up or turn them sideways, the microwave, the computer hard drive, the TV etc....This new source of frustration comes from anything that flys, especially insects that buzz. There is a certain criteria, the buzzier the sound, the more my http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/07/noisy-flys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-115144217679021615Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:46:00 +00002006-06-27T21:02:56.806+00:00Hi All,We have had a good week this week and finally a weight has been lifted as we heard the outcome of our statement panel. We are so lucky that our LEA have agreed pretty much to all we have asked for. Our meeting was today and my husband and I struggled to get our 10 kilo piece of hand luggage (full of files) through the revolving door of the offices. It proved to be good karma in the endhttp://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/06/re-follow-yellow-brick-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-115083085438082212Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:50:00 +00002006-08-26T03:42:06.830+00:00Hi All,I've had my son on a special diet (under the guidance of a dietician at the hospital) which consists of specialist soya milk as his diet is so poor. Unfortunately, he detects the most minute changes in taste and it has taken great time and patience in slowly reducing the amount of normal soya milk, to this special concoction which aims to replace all he loses through only eating quavers, http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/06/mary-poppins-medicine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-115023166084687076Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:12:00 +00002006-06-13T20:47:40.860+00:00Hi All,Whew, hasn't it been hot the last few days. We got loads of rain after we had the anglian man in to install a new patio door - so of course our youngest who hates loud noise (rather large drill being deployed in dining room brick wall) and hissin rain on his head, had to go out for a walk. Sports day was cancelled and bedtime quickly became a welcome relief for all!I came across the wordhttp://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/06/salt-of-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-114962479487717179Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:56:00 +00002006-07-20T15:46:05.653+00:00Hi All,I just read a fantastic book this week called The Time Travellers Wife. I mention it because it is pure escapism from start to finish and I couldn't put it down. I also got to thinking about how lucky we are here in the UK. I have a friend in Hong Kong and we got to know each other after we starting our children on an ABA programme there. When I came back to the UK, I started hassling http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/06/time-travellers-wife.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-114898596020351754Tue, 30 May 2006 10:26:00 +00002006-08-23T14:33:32.536+00:00My husband and I attend the launch last week at the HOP (Houses of Parliament). We had some wonderful speakers and I was all ready to meet and greet, network, and generally give it the large. Unfortunately, my good intentions were thwarted when 16 year old Josh got up to speak. He spoke an eloquent speech and even up to then I was people watching, drinking in the atsmosphere and enjoying myselfhttp://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-husband-and-i-attend-launch-last.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-114841460161101476Tue, 23 May 2006 19:40:00 +00002006-05-23T20:03:21.623+00:00I am thrilled to bits to be part of the Make Schools Make Sense campaign and to add my voice (small though it is!) to the thousands of parents throughout the UK who are trying to do the best they can for an autistic son or daughter.We have had triumphs and setbacks along the way and I hope to be able to share my thoughts with whoever reads these blogs. I am quite new to this lark myself and it http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/05/make-schools-make-sense.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Parent)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28097715.post-114763397592243078Sun, 14 May 2006 19:11:00 +00002006-05-15T09:19:22.256+00:00The National Autistic Society (NAS) has set up this blog on behalf of an independent volunteer blogger. All posts made are an expression of the personal views of the blogger and the NAS takes no responsibility for their content. If you have a complaint about any of the posts made, please add a comment against the post. Thank you for showing interest in Autism and Asperger syndrome. To join the http://parent-schoolmakesense.blogspot.com/2006/05/disclaimer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0