We Go With Him

Every day as I hug Charlie good-bye at the door of his school, I wish--I suppose I pray--that he will be peaceful and stay calm... Read more →

The computer is often cited as a metaphor for how the autistic mind works. Temple Grandin notes that her mind works according to the same... Read more →

What is autism? This is the question addressed, again and again, in the papers that we have been listening to all day at the Autism... Read more →

"Hey, where's Charlie?" Jim and I were standing in line to board an airplane to go to Cleveland for a conference on autism and the... Read more →

Months and maybe longer before Charlie was born he was Charlie. My grandfather's name was Charlie Chew and Charlie--Charles, officially--just seemed the right name for... Read more →

In reponse to Anonymous, who commented on my previous post (#120) that I ought not to "waste so much time" on my computer when I... Read more →

Since last Thursday night, something momentous has been going on in our house: Charlie has gone to sleep and has fallen asleep before 11:00pm. Tonight... Read more →

Charlie did not have school due to our district's having an in-service today. I had noted the date back in the summer and asked my... Read more →

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We woke up to the sound of Charlie singing and then of him bonking the downstairs furniture with his boomwhackers. These are a set of... Read more →

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Yes, Charlie does need to be taught using different teaching techniques than "most" children. Yes, Charlie has a speech disability, sensory deficits, visual tracking difficulties.... Read more →

In his "classic" 1943 article on autism, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," Leo Kanner noted that the mother of Richard M. "watched (and recorded) every... Read more →

I was met by a beaming Cindy when I went to pick up Charlie from his verbal behavior session this evening. "He did so great,"... Read more →

Per aspera ad astra. Seneca the Younger or Virgil (my favorite Latin poet)--the possible sources of that Latin phrase, "through rough times ('struggle') to the... Read more →

Charlie's Monday got off to a tremendously tough start and, while the rest of the day passed without incident, Jim made sure to give Charlie... Read more →

Learning ancient Greek is difficult; teaching ancient Greek is a joy to me. Learning to read, to talk in clear and full sentences, to express... Read more →

Charlie was up and running before Jim and me this morning, in the happy knowledge that we would be going to "beach house." He changed... Read more →

"Invective!" Jim exclaimed when I showed him Kev of Left Brain/Right Brain's post on why he has decided not to write about his daughter Megan.... Read more →

Tantrums like you've never seen before, foodstuff and worse thrown about while paper and grass are eaten, a child crouching in a fetal position lining... Read more →