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Autism & I: Link to Lyme Disease?

On my Facebook page this morning, Autism Canada Foundation posted a video about a little boy who’s diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease has greatly improved his symptoms of Autism. Apparently, he hit all his developmental milestones in the first 15 months or so of his life and then suddenly lost his ability to speak, [...]

September 9, 2011 Posted in: Illness, In the news, Main, Video No Comments

Autism & I: iPad and Proloquo2go

Well, I’m back after a loooooong break from blogging. Why the break? It was because everytime I tried to log into this website to update it I got an error message. And seeing as it was Summer break and the kids were at home, I just haven’t found the time to hunt for the solution [...]

September 7, 2011 Posted in: Communication, Entertainment, Food, Main, School No Comments

Autism & I: Dr Useless at his most useless

I can’t believe that it’s taken me 6 days to continue on with my story about our visit to see Dr Useless, Jake’s pediatrician. The thing is, I was daunted by the idea of how to get the pictures off my phone to post them here and I’ll admit that it was simply easier to put [...]

June 9, 2011 Posted in: Main, Photos No Comments

Autism & I: Antibiotics… again!

This time, it’s for a double ear infection. About 4 days ago, Jake didn’t go to sleep until 1am. Although he wasn’t complaining, we did wonder why he wasn’t sleeping. At 3:30, we woke to the dound of Jake crying. When we went in, he was half-asleep and banging himself on the side of his [...]

June 3, 2011 Posted in: Communication, Illness, Main No Comments

Autism & I: Sleep issues, once again

But this time, he fell asleep at his usual time, 10pm, but then strangely woke again during the night. He stayed awake and partied in his room from about 2:30am onwards. I say “2:30 onwards” because I became award of him at 3am, and I know that it usually takes him a little while of [...]

May 19, 2011 Posted in: Main, Sleep Habits No Comments

Autism & I: Cheeky little monkey

As I mentioned yesterday, I attended an IEP meeting at Jakes school and when it was done, I visited Jake in his Homebase classroom for a few minutes. ‘Homebase’ is the room that is reserved for the special needs children, of all ages. Jake has his own desk, with his name on it in big, bold letters, as well as [...]

May 18, 2011 Posted in: Communication, Entertainment, Main, School No Comments

Autism & I: To pee or not to pee

Soon after waking up this morning, Jake pee’d, which is definitely out of the ordinary recently. Often, nowadays, he’d wait until around dinnertime to do his first pee of the day and that can’t be comfortable. We don’t really know why he’s been holding off – he doesn’t seem to be in pain or discomfort [...]

May 17, 2011 Posted in: Main, School, Toilet Training No Comments

Autism & I: Will he sleep?

Jake has a cough this weekend and we are now Sunday evening, 10:25pm. He’s spent the weekend with an up-and-down mood, crying and then laughing. His smile has lit up the room and then the moaning has been seemingly non-stop. And now, he’s in bed. As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, we put Jake to [...]

May 15, 2011 Posted in: Illness, Main, Sleep Habits No Comments

Autism & I: Another year on

We are coming up to that time of year again where the kids finish off their school year, receive their report cards and look forward to the Summer off. It was around this time last year that Jake had his Kindergarten graduation photos taken (see left) and, as with most things Jake-related, they made me [...]

May 11, 2011 Posted in: Main, Photos, Toilet Training No Comments