Comments on: Appreciating Autism in our Daily Practice

By: betty

betty — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:08:50 +0000

You Tube has some videos of a very self abusive autistic young adult. Go to you tube and type in “autism self injury” The family uses music, pets, etc…as interventions. They don’t claim any cures. And you can see why. This is one of the most severe cases of autism ever documented. Extremely complex. Nothing like what the media is familiar with. I like one video the family puts out, in particular, it’s called “autism epidemic out of control” but it’s not what you think. It’s a video showing their son who is really severely autistic and it cites research into some of the fraudulent cases of autism the media keeps portraying as real autismm, but really aren’t. Interesting.

By: Great post from Empower Autism blog « Talk Small

Great post from Empower Autism blog « Talk Small — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:26:08 +0000

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By: Patti S

Patti S — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:46:40 +0000

Agree- sometimes the phone calls, e-mails, battles, paperwork make me lose sight of these wonderful teenagers I am teaching. The stress can become blinding. But by enjoying a few minutes of so type of “fun” it is bonding and it helps me to breath again and refocus on the real reason I am in the classroom.
Take time everyday to have tose few minutes of hysterical fun- the connections made during these activities are so meaningful and can make overcoming other less joyful tasks easier!