by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com After we helped Ryan’s dysfunctional immune system start to work again, we 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 teaching Ryan how to behave…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com 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 from those incidents are still etched in our minds as though they happened yesterday. We put the bullying behind us, and…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.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 only had an “on”…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.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 most difficult part of autism for me to understand. It took time for me…
by Marcia Hinds 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 read nonfiction books back then.…
