by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autismandtreatment.com This is a guest blog I did for Dr. Theresa Lyon’s website. You can visit her website here. Dr. Lyons says: Marcia did it…so why can’t I ! About a year after my daughter was diagnosed, I stumbled upon a book titled “I Know You’re In There”…
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by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autismandtreatment.com Because language comes later for children with autism, many of our kids struggle with reading comprehension. His weakness in this area was one of my major concerns when he was in elementary school, since reading comprehension was part of almost every school subject. Ryan mostly…
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by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autismandtreatment.com This was the outfit I wore a few times. It worked for IEP’s meetings as well as Halloween. Just as Ryan didn’t understand the social cues, I didn’t always read the IEP team correctly. I was driven to fix Ryan’s autism. My intense focus sometimes…
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by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autismandtreatment.com A huge problem with the holidays is that we exhaust ourselves trying to give our family the perfect day and the perfect gift. My AHA moment that things would never be perfect came during the “Dollhouse Christmas.” That year, I bought a fixer upper dollhouse…
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by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autismandtreatment.com Teacher selection was not allowed in our school district, but I did it anyway. Before the end of each school year I observed and decided on the best teacher to meet Ryan’s needs for the next grade. Then I wrote a letter to the principal…
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