Archive for the Therapies Category
Autism: The Roller Coaster
Any parent on the spectrum can tell you that when your child has a good day its a great day, but when they have a bad day its hell. And so your life is made of these peaks and valleys. Right now we’re in a bit of a valley. For the past couple weeks Tristan has been starting to tantrum.
Tristan’s First Speech Therapy Session
Today was Tristan’s day of speech therapy and he did great! Our speech language pathologist (SLP) is starting him on the picture exchange communication system (PECS). Basically Tristan has to give her a picture of an item in order to play with it. For example, she had bubbles and Tristan had to give her the little card with bubbles on it before she would blow the bubbles. She would also hold up two cards with different items on them and he would choose what he wanted, like bubbles or the shape sorter. Let me tell you this kid loves bubbles!
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