A Fine Line Between the World of Giftedness and Autism
She cannot get her face any closer to the paper. Her eyes move furtively. Using the rivets on the pads of her fingers, she navigates through the results of the graph. Comparing her three-year-old little girl to other little girls her age feels more like a critique as she studies her daughter’s assessment. As a mother, she should be excited about her daughter’s progress; but her eyes continually dart towards the areas of […]
Continue readingA Child with a Disability in a Cold World
He needs to learn to order his own food—something that is easy for most, but not easy for him. So you drive up to a fast food restaurant and roll down his window. He orders. The drive-up server does not understand him. She asks him to repeat. You have to prompt him. He repeats his […]
Continue readingExpert Advice on How to Help Girls Handle Menstruation
You can’t change the radio channel fast enough. You’ve had a bad day, and you can’t make up your mind what you want to want to listen to. You scan the radio channels like you are looking for a needle in a haystack. Then you hear it. That old song that takes you back to […]
Continue readingHow to Use Peripheral Vision to Engage Your Child with Autism
It’s a PARTY. You hold an ice cream cone in front of a child’s face, and it creates a party in the brain. The child’s brain activity goes wild and sees nothing to the left or right, only seeing what’s in front of him/her. What some may not know is with a child with autism, […]
Continue readingLook At Me: The Cornerstone of Eye Contact and Relief for Depression
It is in our human nature that when we see something broken, we feel the need to either throw it away or to fix it. Yet, perception is sometimes reality, and it is personal judgment that makes the item seem broken. It is a gift to see beauty where others see brokenness, and a […]
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