We Go With Him

Jim and Charlie are walking to the psychiatrist's office in the photo on a street that reminds me of why I love Berkeley so much.... Read more →

In the midst of a heavy-duty perseveration episode in which Charlie said 'Berkeley' at least once every minute for over 2 hours last night, I... Read more →

"Peak" is the latest new word to have entered Charlie's vocabulary and no wonder, living as we are now at the foot of the Berkeley... Read more →

As I was running back down from the Berkeley hills, I saw a woman in UC Berkeley sweats walking a beagle. I veered across the... Read more →

Well, it's the (drumroll please) big night before Charlie starts at his new school. Kind of ironically, he would have missed quite a bit of... Read more →

ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω. "The way up the way down." Heraclitus, who is possibly my favorite Ancient Greek philosopher (it is definitely not Plato), is said... Read more →

I have had the frankly terrible topic of this post about facilitated communication on my mind for the past two weeks and finally wrote something... Read more →

I've had some research about bilingualism on my mind after reading it over the weekend. I know a couple of languages and, thanks to the... Read more →

I started writing the earliest incarnation of this blog, then titled My Son Has Autism, back in June of 2005. Though this blog has changed... Read more →

Charlie woke up at 5.20am, showered, and came down the stairs exuberantly. It was 'no' to a walk and then he went to get his... Read more →

A few thoughts of mine on two new studies regarding the detection of autism in infants over at Care2.com ending with some musings about how,... Read more →

The clunky title of this post sums up one of the greatest lessons I've learned in life with Charlie. Charlie is 'verbal' in the sense... Read more →

It seems that I have acquired eyes on my back. Once upon a time, I used always to say that, for safety’s sake, I could... Read more →

The above photo shows Charlie's 'favorite things' as I call them. He refers to this whole set of objects as 'blue beads': Charlie often refers... Read more →

Driving home from school on Thursday afternoon, Charlie asked to go to a fastfood TexMex restaurant. We hadn't really celebrated Wednesday's performance so I did... Read more →

After several months of typing the names of not-yet-forgotten PBS kid shows into the Search box of YouTube, I am pleased to announce that Charlie... Read more →

Charlie said "that way" the other day for the first time ever. He often says "this way" and points, more or less, in the direction... Read more →

At any one time Charlie only seems to have so many words consciously at his command. He's still been saying "loose tooth, it's stuck" and,... Read more →

I'm not gonna hide anything. Sunday was difficult in a way that things haven't been for us at home with Charlie since early this summer;... Read more →

It never rains but it pours: This was the case for us yesterday, and not only because it rained rained rained cold hard & steady... Read more →