We Go With Him

So Jim went to work on Wednesday morning and Charlie -- not that he was sure he would -- survived. Of course, Jim has always... Read more →

Jim has to go into New York today to work today and we'd prepared Charlie in advance, via the hand-written multicolor calendar I made last... Read more →

Charlie got in a full night's sleep on Sunday and, Monday morning, he and I had a cheery ride to the Big Autism Center, even... Read more →

Remember Harold and his purple crayon? Harold draws his way in and out of a series of adventures---a dragon, a sailboat, a picnic of pies,... Read more →

As much as I was excited to start writing another autism blog back in April, I had a few hesitations, namely, what more did I... 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 →

While Charlie was in the shower crumbling my big blue bar of soap into bits that he shoved down the drain, I was putting together... Read more →

He stands in the driveway, face frowning: The white car (Grandpa's car that he no longer drives) is not in its customary place by my... Read more →

"You're going to feel a big let done once this is all over," more than a few people said to us and especially to Jim... Read more →

"Wahlk!" proclaimed Charlie after dinner. I handed him his blue hooded fleece sweatshirt, which we discovered he had put on backwards when he found the... Read more →

We had only to say to Charlie this morning that his aunt was coming to visit "with the dog" and Charlie, who had been taking... Read more →

Last Monday, the 3rd of July, I wrote that, after, writing daily about Charlie on Autismland for just over a year, I was going to... Read more →

I started blogging back in June of 2005 with the thought that writing publicly about Charlie on the internet would help me to write a... Read more →

Today I started to read Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think by Stanley Greenspan and Serene Wiedman. Dr.... Read more →

A few weeks ago, Katie Grant wrote an article in The Sunday Times, Scotland, Some ‘autistic’ children aren’t ill, they’re just badly behaved in which... Read more →

Said Charlie on his own, unprompted, running out onto the deck. And then, "shhhhhhhed!", and he was across the grass and pulling at the latch.... Read more →

Soon as the bus aide slides open the door of the mini-van (aka Charlie's "red schoolbus") she simultaneously hands me a ball-up pair of inside-out... Read more →

If some children with autism have hyperlexia--a "precocious ability to read words" and an "intense fascination with letters or numbers "--Charlie could be said to... Read more →

Once I got into work today---late because I stayed at home while Charlie had an early ABA session, to check in with the therapist--one theme... Read more →

When Charlie was just diagnosed with autism in July 1999, Jim and I read and read and read. We read books of the "what is... Read more →