We Go With Him

The highlight of Saturday was the brighter-than-sunlight smile on Charlie's face when he saw, and got a huge from, one of his very first ABA... Read more →

Charlie woke around 5am Sunday morning and, after staying in his bedroom for awhile, went downstairs, knocked everything off my desk and sent a bookshelf... Read more →

Yes, the shoveling thing again, last evening. I have to say again, Charlie's way of shoveling snow has that uniquely Charlie-esque quality to it. It's... Read more →

Happily, the call I got at 5.30am Tuesday from Charlie's school was for a 'delayed opening' rather than an all-out snow day. School started at... Read more →

It was all blustery wind and pelting rain as Charlie and I drove up to the Big Autism Center on Wednesday morning. We had gotten... Read more →

Before heading out to the New Jersey horse country bike path, we stopped to at a gas station to put air in in the bikes's... Read more →

Thanks to Jill, Antonio DA, Barbara, and Melanie for your comments on Monday's post, Stick With It, in regard to the curious pattern in Charlie's... Read more →

We had a little triumph yesterday at the beach and it wasn't of a swimming sort. Charlie did have a superb time in the ocean... Read more →

Charlie having done ABA since he was 2 years and 4 months old, and Charlie having had his share of 'behavior issues,' we've become quite... Read more →

Don't know about you, but we had a real Monday Murphy's Law morning. Most likely as a result of waking up so early on Sunday,... Read more →

My longtime blog-friend Gretchen wrote this yesterday in regard to my account of our Sunday morning visit to Barnes & Noble and the purchase of... Read more →

What's the best school, the right school, for Charlie? Once upon a time, I think we thought we knew, or at least had a strong... Read more →

I noted we had a lovely Sunday---actually, the whole weekend was lovely. After the previous week's really rough Sunday and then last Monday when Charlie... Read more →

So I have been arriving slowly at a conclusion. Behavior therapy---ABA, behavioral science, however you may call it---is not helping Charlie's behavior problems. In fact,... Read more →

I have been feeling guilty-----because Charlie hasn't practised the piano since Monday. He has been spending his days with my parents (aquarium yesterday, train into... Read more →

In the Odyssey, Homer's epic poem of the adventures of Odysseus on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, his wife Penelope keeps... Read more →

This evening Charlie rediscovered what was once one of his favorite items when we lived in our old house: A bucket of photos. We had... Read more →

"Won more gezackly!" Charlie echoed me with a smile: It was 8.45pm and he was opening the refrigerator door for "one more" orange---"exactly" one and... Read more →

"What's involved with that?" asked Grandma from her usual chair in the living room. "Whah's ihvawed wih da?" said Charlie. Imitated Charlie, as he was... Read more →

"We can't have strangers in our house!" I remember saying this to Jim when we first read about starting an intensive in-home ABA home program... Read more →