Re: New to group

[Guest guest]

I would like to take the opportunity to welcome all new members. If you haven't introduced yourselves yet, please do so. I look forward to hearing from each of you and learning from you. I am the mother of 4 boys with autism, ages 5, 6, 7, and 11. I homeschool. The curriculum I use is school of Tomorrow. It is a very good program, and my boys are doing well on it. I will try to find the website for it. Well, hope everyone is doing well, and would love updates. God bless, Sharon(moderator)

[Guest guest]

Well, I don't know about any LDD-specific curriculum, but I was

homeshcooled for high school, and my brother(who will be graduating

HS this May) has been homeschooled since 2nd grade. There are SO

many great choices now. Are you looking for a religious-based

program or non?

-- In autism-aspergers@y..., " queue_ualls " <qualls@p...> wrote:

> Hi--

> I;m new to this group. My daughter is 13 years old. She is HFA

> with LD and ODD. I knew something was different when she

> was 2. At 5 the doctor told me she was autisic. After about 7

> years in the school agreed. I just think of all the wasted

time! I

> would like to homeschool. Does anyone know of a curiculum to

> use? And she is on different levels. I homeschooled for 1

> semester and she madw great advancement and after 1 year in

> regular school she has drop almost where she was. Any advice

> is helpful.

>

> Nikki's mom

[Guest guest]

I realy don't realy know what I want. I would like to have christian

base but is there one that autistic kids seem to work better with?

Nikki's mom

> > Hi--

> > I;m new to this group. My daughter is 13 years old. She is

HFA

> > with LD and ODD. I knew something was different when she

> > was 2. At 5 the doctor told me she was autisic. After about 7

> > years in the school agreed. I just think of all the wasted

> time! I

> > would like to homeschool. Does anyone know of a curiculum

to

> > use? And she is on different levels. I homeschooled for 1

> > semester and she madw great advancement and after 1 year

in

> > regular school she has drop almost where she was. Any

advice

> > is helpful.

> >

> > Nikki's mom

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Have you heard of Applied Behavioral Analysis? She is older than most

who start, but it is a wonderful way to teach children who learn in a

different manner than the average child. If you have homeschooled, then

you can learn to teach her in this way too. If the school is willing,

then you could get them trained too. This way you can maintain the

skills she gains as you progress.

wildwomba

[Guest guest]

Ok I'm relatively new on this list. I am the mother of

an 11 year boy with autism and sometimes I wonder if my 13 year old

is somewhere on the spectrum (very high ). my 11

year old is in a private ABA based school and doing very well

although as he get older he is becoming a handful with his

obsessions. My 13 year old is officially language impaired

with learning disabilities. He is mainstreamed in a small parochial

school with speech OT and " resource " provided by the

district. He does socially fit in with his class (9 boys including

himself and twin brother) but as he get older I notice he can't

care a hoot about his appearance. He won't wear pajamas to go

out but doesn't notice if his shirt pants ect are filthy. He

can't seem to understand his peers could make fun of him (most don't he

is in a very accepting class) But unlike my 11 year old he is

very interested in making friends an being part of the group when we tell

him wear a clean shirt ect he will try to remember.

At 12:57 AM 1/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:

I would

like to take the opportunity to welcome all new members. If you haven't

introduced yourselves yet, please do so. I look forward to hearing from

each of you and learning from you. I am the mother of 4 boys with autism,

ages 5, 6, 7, and 11. I homeschool. The curriculum I use is school of

Tomorrow. It is a very good program, and my boys are doing well on it. I

will try to find the website for it. Well, hope everyone is doing well,

and would love updates. God bless,

Sharon(moderator)

[Guest guest]

Hi - I've been lurking for a couple of months, but I am also new on the list.

My son, Ben, is 8 1/2 and was just diagnosed by the district last month. He was

an early reader, and was identified as Gifted last year, so it's been a real

roller-coaster of emotions for our family. Fortunately, he has some excellent

coping skills (handles his anger with a punching bag) and good verbal expression

(has an excellent sense of humor). He is in the public schools in a suburb of

St. Louis, with a 1st/2nd combined class so he's had the same teacher for 2

years. We kept him back from starting kindergarten to give time for his " slow "

social/gross motor skills to develop - thank goodness for creative teachers,

because now we face his boredom with the curriculum. Now we face just how many

pull-outs we can handle in a week - for OT, speech (pragmatics), his challenge

classes, etc. We're looking into an outside social skills group as well.

Questions I've wondered about: how much do you allow the stimming-kinds of

behavior - " Time by Myself " in our house-hold) - versus redirecting into some

kind of social interaction?

Has anyone worked with the Gutstein group in Houston with their Relational

Development Intervention? It makes a ton of intuitive sense, but I'm looking

for personal experiences.

Looking forward to being a bit more active in the future!

Ruth.

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[Guest guest]

Hi there,

Welcome

to the group J in response to the question my eldest son has Saturdays that is

what we call his away day he can do what he likes on that day he doesn’t have

to dress if he doesn’t want to and he can have his obsessions on that day

providing he tries his best not to get to distracted in the week and do his

school work, but the younger has to be redirected other wise he does it all the

time so there is no easy answer to that one just find what works for your son J and for your family.

Hugs

H ()

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From: Ruth Davies Sulser

Sent: 11 February 2002 00:13

To:

autism-aspergers

Subject: Re:

new to group

Hi - I've been lurking for a couple of months, but

I am also new on the list. My son, Ben, is 8 1/2 and was just diagnosed

by the district last month. He was an early reader, and was identified as

Gifted last year, so it's been a real roller-coaster of emotions for our

family. Fortunately, he has some excellent coping skills (handles his

anger with a punching bag) and good verbal expression (has an excellent sense

of humor). He is in the public schools in a suburb of St. Louis, with a 1st/2nd

combined class so he's had the same teacher for 2 years. We kept him back

from starting kindergarten to give time for his " slow " social/gross

motor skills to develop - thank goodness for creative teachers, because now we

face his boredom with the curriculum. Now we face just how many pull-outs

we can handle in a week - for OT, speech (pragmatics), his challenge classes,

etc. We're looking into an outside social skills group as well.

Questions I've wondered about: how much do you

allow the stimming-kinds of behavior - " Time by Myself " in our

house-hold) - versus redirecting into some kind of social interaction?

Has anyone worked with the Gutstein group in

Houston with their Relational Development Intervention? It makes a ton of

intuitive sense, but I'm looking for personal experiences.

Looking forward to being a bit more active in the

future!

Ruth.

Go Get It!

Send FREE Valentine eCards with Lycos Greetings

http://greetings.lycos.com

[Guest guest]

Ruth Davies Sulser wrote:

>

> Hi - I've been lurking for a couple of months, but I am also new on the

> list. My son, Ben, is 8 1/2 and was just diagnosed by the district last

> month. He was an early reader, and was identified as Gifted last year,

> so it's been a real roller-coaster of emotions for our family.

> Fortunately, he has some excellent coping skills (handles his anger with

> a punching bag) and good verbal expression (has an excellent sense of

> humor). He is in the public schools in a suburb of St. Louis, with a

> 1st/2nd combined class so he's had the same teacher for 2 years. We

> kept him back from starting kindergarten to give time for his " slow "

> social/gross motor skills to develop - thank goodness for creative

> teachers, because now we face his boredom with the curriculum. Now we

> face just how many pull-outs we can handle in a week - for OT, speech

> (pragmatics), his challenge classes, etc. We're looking into an outside

> social skills group as well.

You might want to look at Scouting for him; he's about Cub Scout age,

right? Many cities have troops for our kids, or troops that are geared

for our kids. This could be a good outlet, and a chance for some

successes to pile up. Also, the parks department here in Albuquerque

has recreational programs all year long at the various rec sites in the

city for our kids and NT kids too. Our son participated at a couple of

these and really had a good time. I can imagine that St. Louis would

have some of these programs.

>

> Questions I've wondered about: how much do you allow the stimming-kinds

> of behavior - " Time by Myself " in our house-hold) - versus redirecting

> into some kind of social interaction?

While stimming might look like pointless activity, or may even look a

bit bizarre (depending on the method your guy uses), actually it is a

pressure release system for our kids. It's a way of centering, of

assuring his place in the world (literally), and a way of letting off

steam and nerves and anxiety. We just let Louie stim. When we were

just family in the house, he could stim where ever he felt comfortable

doing it. When we had visitors over, he learned to control his own

impulse to stim until he could get upstairs to his room. Not that we

were ashamed of it, nor did we teach Louie to be ashamed of it, but we

just got tired of answering questions of people who saw him do it.

His " bliss face, " though, he's always been allowed to do at the place

and time where he was; sometimes Louie gets so happy about something

that he is literally afraid he will fly apart from the joy, so he clasps

his hands, grins with is whole face and open mouth, rocks in place, and

makes a little buzzing moaning sound. I wish I could be that happy.

And that's what we tell people who look askance at him doing it, too.

" Wouldn't it be nice if we could be that happy? " The last time, BTW,

that questions and looks over bliss face arose was at the city aquarium

at the cylindrical tank of fairy jellyfish. He was intranced, and he

stood there and blissed out for about 10 minutes. He was with his

dayhab group, too, and they handled it the same as we would have.

Louie is 22, or will be in a couple of weeks or so, thus you can see

that this is something that will likely be around all your son's life.

But it's not a bad thing. I think of it as the same as smoking, in that

it's used for the same reasons as smoking, but it doesn't hurt anybody's

body.

> Looking forward to being a bit more active in the future!

>

> Ruth.

It's nice to know you! Oh, and I'm Annie in Albuquerque. I've been married

to Ron, my dh, for 27 years now. We have a brood of two: Kris, 33, who lives

Arizona and was the first Goth in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Louie, almost 22,

who lives in supported living here in Albuquerque and is starting

Special Olympic field hockey.

Annie, who loves ya annie@...

--

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three

parts dead. - Bertrand

[Guest guest]

,

Your son's symptoms sound very similar to those of my son, , 13, AS.

He started Paxil last summer and was " activated. " This activation, as it

was explained to me, is an activation of bipolar symptoms (manic depression)

and would and did not go away until we stopped the medication. Luckily,

this happened during the su,,er and not while in school. He was already on

Risperdal for irritability/impulsivity. I insisted in a slight increase and

have steered away from the SSRI antidepressants since then and all is well.

You are fortunate to have support at your school. We have been fortunate,

too, but so many others have so much trouble with undereducated teachers and

therefore non-supportive.

Good luck with your son's medication.

Leah

New to group

> Hi, My name is . Mike (my husband) and I have an 8 year old

> son diagnosed with Aspergers. He goes to a public school and is

> mainstreamed, has an aide, but also goes to the resource room for

> language/arts and for sensory input for approx. 1 1/2 hrs a day.. He

> is in first grade. He has the school supports--OT, Speech,and APE.

> Outside of school--he goes to a social skills group weekly, another

> psychologist sees another boy same age/ same diagnosis and him for 2

> hrs a month and we have a private speech therapist (for pragmatics)

> every week. He goes to a APE program put on by a local University

> weekly. He's had a hard time adjusting from kindergarden to 1st

> grade, so we cut out private OT and swimming. Too much for him!!!He

> currently is on Wellbutrin and Tenex for hyperactivity/social behavior

> and most recently added Zoloft for OCD. (tried Prozac (Bad reaction)

> and luvox which he had been taking for almost a year. (we didn't

> notice a difference) so we decided to switch. The OCD has gotten

> probably 90% better. No more talk about Blues Clues, washers and

> dryers, and Vaccuum cleaner. If he slips up, he immediately is aware

> and changes the subject. You'd think I'd be ecstatic---one draw

> back--I'm hoping that someone could help me with. He is going on the

> sixth week of Zoloft--about 1 1/2 wks ago he started getting

> impulsive now its more or less out of control. I called his

> psychiatrist and he said it could be a side effect from the med.

> " behavior activation " which causes hyperactivity and impulsivity. He

> suggested that we bear with it for another week or two to see if it

> goes away. Has any heard of this and could it go away? If so, how

> long does this last? It's sad to see him go through something like

> this when you know he can't control it (his teachers and aide are very

> supportive) Thanks for listening!!

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Where are you located?

Ken

New to group

Hi, My name is . Mike (my husband) and I have an 8 year old son diagnosed with Aspergers. He goes to a public school and is mainstreamed, has an aide, but also goes to the resource room for language/arts and for sensory input for approx. 1 1/2 hrs a day.. He is in first grade. He has the school supports--OT, Speech,and APE. Outside of school--he goes to a social skills group weekly, another psychologist sees another boy same age/ same diagnosis and him for 2 hrs a month and we have a private speech therapist (for pragmatics) every week. He goes to a APE program put on by a local University weekly. He's had a hard time adjusting from kindergarden to 1st grade, so we cut out private OT and swimming. Too much for him!!!He currently is on Wellbutrin and Tenex for hyperactivity/social behavior and most recently added Zoloft for OCD. (tried Prozac (Bad reaction) and luvox which he had been taking for almost a year. (we didn't notice a difference) so we decided to switch. The OCD has gotten probably 90% better. No more talk about Blues Clues, washers and dryers, and Vaccuum cleaner. If he slips up, he immediately is aware and changes the subject. You'd think I'd be ecstatic---one draw back--I'm hoping that someone could help me with. He is going on the sixth week of Zoloft--about 1 1/2 wks ago he started getting impulsive now its more or less out of control. I called his psychiatrist and he said it could be a side effect from the med. "behavior activation" which causes hyperactivity and impulsivity. He suggested that we bear with it for another week or two to see if it goes away. Has any heard of this and could it go away? If so, how long does this last? It's sad to see him go through something like this when you know he can't control it (his teachers and aide are very supportive) Thanks for listening!!

[Guest guest]

Hi kelly, my name is Trina, my son is 6 with Asperger's...where do you live? state, city?

newmanfamily200@... wrote:

Hello,I would like to introduce myself. My name is kelly and I am a 27yr old SAHM with three little boys. Casey, 8yrs old, is adhd/bipolar/ocd/sensory deprivation; is 6yrs old and Austin is almost 3 yrs old, autism, mild retardation and the speech impaired/developmentally disabled.we found out at the beginning of august for sure about austin and it has been pretty tough on my dh and I. I think it is also knowing that there is nothing to say to make you feel better and we will never know what caused this to happen. Our family doesn't understand so they continually say that before long we will never know that he has anything wrong with him. Or they don't even try to be around him. I can't get any respite help for him right now due to our state's budget cuts and good help is hard to find lol.so austin goes to speech therapy and OT once a week at the hospital and anymore I tend to live minute by minute because I don't know what to do or how to handle him.I tend to fly pretty blind anymore as I don't really have much in the way of local resources and no one who has a child or children like mine.thank you for listening and look forward to meeting all of you.

[Guest guest]

,

My oldest son is autistic and my youngest son has developmental problems.

They are now 19 and 23. I also have a middle son who is 20 (the musician

that I kidded about in my previous email). I wish that I had been able to

find a group like this when the kids were younger.

I understand what it's like to have no resources and feel like nobody else

has two kids in special education classes. I was so tired of meeting with

child study teams who couldn't really offer help for my kids! My husband

and I were young, we had when we were 20 and 21. We were so lost and

clueless! No one helped us to feel better either. My mom is still in

denial.

Anyway, it gets better as the kids get older if you find some support for

them. I was lucky to have a couple of wonderful teachers in my town's

special ed classes.

Best of luck to you, and stick with this group. In the short time that I've

been part of it, I really feel that I've been helped by the way that

everyone has been sharing.

Sue

>From: newmanfamily200@...

>Reply-To: autism-aspergers

>To: autism-aspergers

>Subject: new to group

>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:37:57 EDT

>

>Hello,

>

>I would like to introduce myself. My name is kelly and I am a 27yr old

>SAHM

>with three little boys. Casey, 8yrs old, is adhd/bipolar/ocd/sensory

>deprivation; is 6yrs old and Austin is almost 3 yrs old, autism, mild

>retardation and the speech impaired/developmentally disabled.

>

>we found out at the beginning of august for sure about austin and it has

>been

>pretty tough on my dh and I. I think it is also knowing that there is

>nothing to say to make you feel better and we will never know what caused

>this to happen. Our family doesn't understand so they continually say that

>before long we will never know that he has anything wrong with him. Or

>they

>don't even try to be around him. I can't get any respite help for him

>right

>now due to our state's budget cuts and good help is hard to find lol.

>

>so austin goes to speech therapy and OT once a week at the hospital and

>anymore I tend to live minute by minute because I don't know what to do or

>how to handle him.

>I tend to fly pretty blind anymore as I don't really have much in the way

>of

>local resources and no one who has a child or children like mine.

>

>thank you for listening and look forward to meeting all of you.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

You personal trainer is full of bull. Ask him to show you the

research that indicates that isometric exercise " sucks glycogen

stores out of the muscles! " I bet you he can't and that he won't

find this article anywhere.

If you really want to burn fat and build lean muscle tissue, dump

the cycling and try running wind sprints. This has been proven to

stimulate growth hormone release and will build lean tissure and

burn fat stores.

Add the BW and you are there!

PS-find another personal trainer. This one sounds like he knows

nothing.

>

> >

> >Hi all.

> >I have an X5 bullworker and have used it off and on for the past

15

> >years. I am nearing 40 yeras of age and have decided to put some

> >serious effort into some much needed toning. In the past I was

always

> >impressed by the short time it takes to tone up and lose fat but

now

> >I'm older it seems quite a task. I've been using it for the past

2

> >weeks doing the first 26 exercises isometrically and I've

actually

> >put on weight! 1kg to be exact. I also use an exercise bike in my

> >training regime. I like to cycle for 30 minutes keeping my heart

rate

> >at around 135 bpm. After cycling I use the bullworker and also

> >incorporate push ups and sit ups as well.

> >

> >Does this sound like a decent training regime? When should I

start

> >training isotonically. I have tried some exercises isotonically

and

> >they can be rather tiring.

> >

> >Any advice and tips would be much appreciated.

> >

> >Thanks and kind regards.

> >Haysoo

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

, Hi Summer

well . . . the X5 exercise chart has identical exercises for men and

women--the ONLY difference is male or female models. also

terminolgy " build biceps " versus " tone arms " (funny actually!)

you might think of treating yourself to a new bullworker as the X5

type model has a wider exercise range than the one you're using.

I certainly don't have bulky muscles (and don't want them either).

Face it without chemical assistance we CAN'T get bulky . . .

hey good luck reaching your goals

Roma

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Thanks for the info everyone! I will continue to do the " men "

exercises and trust that I do not bulk up. (lol) Funny, I have been

using the bullworker now for just over three weeks and the difference

in how I feel and look is amazing. I have muscles! (lol) I usually

work at it for about twnety minutes or so twice a day, or when ever

the spirit moves me. Yesterday I did a fair bit and feel it today.

Groooaaaaannnnn. : ) But it is all good. I wish I had taken

measurements before I had started to mark my progress, but did not. I

just know that I am feeling better and toning up which is what I was

after. One can really get hooked on this can't they.

I am always looking around for more info on the bullworker and am

anxious for my chart to come in. If I come across something of

interest I will be sure to post it.

Thanks again everyone!

Summer

>

> , Hi Summer

> well . . . the X5 exercise chart has identical exercises for men and

> women--the ONLY difference is male or female models. also

> terminolgy " build biceps " versus " tone arms " (funny actually!)

> you might think of treating yourself to a new bullworker as the X5

> type model has a wider exercise range than the one you're using.

> I certainly don't have bulky muscles (and don't want them either).

> Face it without chemical assistance we CAN'T get bulky . . .

> hey good luck reaching your goals

> Roma

> >

>