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Category Archives: Asperger’s
A Very Good Day at the Playground
If you’ve followed this blog for a while you know about our challenges with playgrounds. They fall under the category of things that are supposed to be fun for kids, but aren’t fun for Riley. Once in a while though, for … Continue reading
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Self-Advocacy
“Wait! Wait! Wait!” she cried. Riley got upset at her cello lesson. The well meaning teacher reminded her no one does it perfectly. Everyone is learning. “You don’t need to get so upset over it,” she said, encouragingly. Riley stopped and … Continue reading
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Staying in the Race
In one weekend, Riley took a promotional exam in martial arts, went to a birthday party unaccompanied by me (for the very first time!) and ran a huge 5K race with Girls on the Run. She even fell during the run,scraping … Continue reading
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Better Days Ahead, the Remix
* Yesterday I picked Riley up after school and once again she was in the sensory room crying. Once again the aide brought Seth to Girls on the Run(GOTR) for me while I helped Riley calm down enough to make … Continue reading
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Teaching Each Other Who We Are
Every traffic light was red. We got to martial arts late. Riley maintained calm. She walked in. Ran to the bathroom to wash her hands(she’d had a snack in the car), then joined the class in progress. This was big, … Continue reading
DVD Helps People With Asperger’s Find and Keep a Job
For those who might be interested: We purchased a video from this company about social skills/manners and it was nicely done. I will be ordering this one as well. ~~ For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 29, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, NC — … Continue reading
Talking about the service dog,
over at Hopeful Parents today. I won’t lie, I’m hoping everyone over there at HP will get a service dog for their child(ren). I’ve been sending Carrie e-mail pics of dogs for close to a year now, trying to convince her to … Continue reading
Cute Dog Pictures
Some pictures from 4 Paws today. These puppies are in a kennel, right in the same room we do our training. They are so stinking cute I can’t stand it! They play wild, wild, wild, and then they all plop down at … Continue reading
Map of a Character
At school last week, Riley had to do a “character map” and of course she picked her favorite person, Seth, to focus on. I don’t know if you can read the above so I will type it out for you: Seth … Continue reading
Day 1 at 4 Paws
Read about it on the service dog page!
Off We Go!
After almost a year of waiting we leave tomorrow to meet Riley’s service dog. The bags are packed. The groceries are bought, the cat/house sitter arrives in the morning(poor cats, they’ve never met a dog in their lives)! I honestly have very … Continue reading