Kat - thank you for your offer, it's interesting there are quite a few professionals on here who help with asd and sensory issues which is a great wealth of information to draw on. All the best with your pg.
Christy - Don't ever feel like a failure! These services are there to help us because we need them! We found the only head phones Xander likes are these huge ones Dh got to block out noise on the little ariplanes he used to fly in out west :-) Not exactly 'blending in' material. Does Matlida like electronic games? We got DS a leapster last year for Christmas and it is what he absorbs himself in when we are in stressful situations. It is starting to die so we have him a Nintendo DS for Christmas (from Ebay) It's funny because I caught up with some other people whose boys were on the spectrum and they were all playing on these DS systems - mainly pokemon. Is she interested in anything like that?
As for us - we are not having a very settled week. DS is all over the place like a dogs breakfast - speaking of which our dog was killed on Sunday and we are getting 2 new puppies (yes just to add to the chaos that is our life) but I don't think that has upset him. i think it's more getting close to school holidays - he is wanting to know what we are going to do and when and what day he is going back to school and which class is he in. OMG he is seriously stressing! Holidays are always horrible as he hates the spontenaity. I really should sit down and make a plan..... might help him settles :-( I just hate being so planned out all the time! On the upside we finally started getting some money back through medicare for all the OT sessions. It has taken us 5 months to jump through all the right hoops! Thankfully our bank balance is looking slightly less sad now :-)
Last edited by ~Saram~; November 26th, 2008 at 10:27 PM.
: cause there was so many typos even I couldn't understand it
oh I hear ya, since school has stopped Matilda needs me to write out a routine everyday and put a timer on for what happens next.... ARGH I'm so not organised enough for that!!!
Tomorrow I have a few things to deal with, but its mainly a home day. I think I will be dropping something off another suburb away. Than we are home for nap time and during naptime MIL is coming over so I can run to the shops... Matilda doesn't nap, but has "quiet time".
Somehow I have to get a rhythm going in our house to help instigate "calm". ARGH!
mmmm yes. It took an hour of screaming on both of our parts to get Matilda ready for swimming. She refused to eat. She still hasn't eaten anything today yet, no water, nothing. She keeps falling over because she's not looking where she is going, she can't listen... even to 'Stop!!! Don't run into that...."
Sometimes I think our kids just hear the 'run into that' part and miss the rest !
Try to ask them to do what you want, not what you don't want - like asking them to walk, instead of 'not running'. 'keep your toast on the table' rather than 'don't throw your toast around'.
I've also got this thing going at bedtime and bathtime - not saying, 'its time for a bath' but rather 'what toys are you going to play with in the bath'. Same with bedtime, 'what books are we going to read in bed'. Don't give them a chance to say no.
My Alex has just turned 3 and we're in the process of getting a diagnosis. I thought there was something unusual about him just before he was two and a half. We go to an early intervention place once a week, their program is based on the floortime program from the US and gives you tactics and things to use everyday.
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