When I first contemplated starting this blog I had some idea about what I hoped it would accomplish. It was going to be an attempt to keep myself organized, a place to review things that I read about autism and keep notes for myself, and a place to document some of the more personal aspects [...]

I recently uploaded more documents to our repository and was very surprised to see that there is currently 245 documents stored there! It consists of 241 documents that range from media articles to research papers on various topics in autism. There are also 4 e-books that I have there as well in their [...]

The National on CBC ran an interview with the founder of The brain repair institute of Canada , a supposed treatment center for kids with autism and other neurologically based conditions like cerebral palsy. To say that I found the whole thing disturbing would be a GROSS understatement. Though she bases some [...]

When it was time for K to start preschool, and in an attempt to maximize K’s experience and minimize the stress for all concerned when he started in September 2006, his teachers recommended we use a communication book. The book was a way to record what had been happening lately with K; sleep (or [...]

On Thursdays I have the pleasure of taking the kids to school. Though it can be frustrating, as any parent with young kids will attest (ASD or no ASD), to get the 2 of them out of the house so that we are not late, it gives me a very limited glimpse into what [...]