www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom After we helped Ryan’s dysfunctional immune system start to work again, we still needed to catch him up on all he missed with direct teaching until he started to learn like typical kids. The book Social Skills for Special Children by Darlene Mannix helped immensely with…
www.autism-and-treatment.com by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom How many of us still remember bullying incidents that occurred when we were in school? These incidents probably only happened once or twice in our lives, but the pain and those incidents are still etched in our minds as though they happened yesterday. We put the…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Our children do grow up and improve in spite of all our worrying. I’m probably not the one who should be giving advice on this subject. And don’t use this mom as your example of what to do, because my worrying gene was on steroids. It…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com When your kid has autism, the social skills are the last to come and the hardest to teach. Every behavior and every social skill had to be directly taught to Ryan. This was one of the hardest part of autism for me. We had to directly…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Because language comes later for children with autism, many of our kids struggle with reading comprehension. Even though my son is now an engineer, his weakness in this area was one of my main concerns when he was in elementary school. This worried me, since reading…
