Guest guest Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 NOW IF I COULD ONLY TEACH HER TO PUMP HERSELF IN THE SWING. KASSIANE, *WHEN* ARE YOU COMING TO HELP IN THIS MATTER??????? >> This summer. post school. If 2 conditions are met: 1. You are serious and 2. I can afford it. Kassiane _______________________________________________________________ Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Not much of a dairy girl. However she did end up going to the pediatrician today and has a double ear infection and a sinus infection. Maybe thats why she was so weepy. Who know's. I guess that I wont worry. Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 never did that at age 6. I would personally check her diet then worry about her hormone level. My brother loved milk and hed break out with it all the time. Sometimes choclate does the trick with pimples too. Charlene -- RE:Abby I have a question for anybody on the list, but I would really like Sondra and Kassiane to put their input in to. Lately Abby has been very emotional and weepy, almost PMS like. I have noticed more pimples on her body in the last 2-3 weeks. Mind you this in a child that most people say looks like a porceline doll, her skin has always been flawless. (Except those bruises from jumping off the couch! LOL) She just turned 6 in April and I am just wondering if this is something 6 year old do? Or should I even be concerned? Thanks. Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Now that you have an answer sure helps. I hope it clears up soon! Charlene -- Re: RE:Abby Not much of a dairy girl. However she did end up going to the pediatrician today and has a double ear infection and a sinus infection. Maybe thats why she was so weepy. Who know's. I guess that I wont worry. Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 Pennie have been busy but will add some insight to my own weepy times as a child, increased awareness to things I to lacked ability to express and or communicate to others of a want or need. Also even to this day can have a change in mood with no warning and can be to feel as though something terrible has just been to happen. I to also if to be of sick but was not getting body signals to brain until much pronounced often caused the weepiness because I to lacked in knowing for example it was my ears or my throat or what ever it was to be so could not be to share this but felt a much not right int he body that caused my sensory to be out of sync. So all things tobe of a heightened alert state which caused em to react to all things. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 This happens almost everytime Abby gets sick, she is either very mean or cranky, she has recently started the weepiness. Makes sense about her brain not getting the signals. Although there may be no physical symptoms yet the behavoir always starts about 3-5 days before. Hmm, very interesting Sondra. Pennie Abby's mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Where would I be without your insight? You are wonderful. Have you talked with Kassiane? I havent seen her on lately and I know she was having a hard time. Also, How did your poetry (it was poetry, wasent it?) reading, over the weekend? If it was something else I am sorry I dont remember. Pennie Abby's mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Pennie because some of us are hypersensitive and can detect things going wrong very early in our bodies but cannot be to process it and or find the words so we to know and often dont be to associate the pains to body and connect the two. Some can but my body is to be to not get the messages until strong symptoms due emerge such as fever, vomiting . For me I to be to get tired and moody about 3 days before any symptoms of illness show its self. I to be learning to read if you will these signals. I can be to feel headaches and nausea though. But sometime ear infections and strep throat will be like bad headache to me. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 I to be to had 2 speaking events last week one I to be just as guest and to be to speaked there reading some of my poems. I to be to sole 6 of my books that day and 4 the one that was an hour speaking event. They to liked me too and be to asked me to come back again this coming week to speak to the middle school. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Congratulations, Sondra!! It must give you such a warm feeling inside knowing that people enjoy your poetry. I wish I had what it takes to be a good poet. My stuff is very Roses are red violets are blue...you know, just not what it takes! You should be proud of yourself. Here's one of those cyber hugs coming from me. Keep up the good work. Sincerely, Rhonda Olivia's mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Very neat Sondra, how is the auto-biography going? Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Sondra, How can I get Abby to be more conversational? Abby will talk about Disney Princesses and cartoons but I just cant get her to be conversational. I dont know, are 6 year like that anyways? NT or autistic? Maybe I am just expecting to much. Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Sometimes I to be to work on it other times to be to feel to burn it to the trash so not sure of its future as of yet. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Yes she to be to be much like me in this. I to be to have gone to the dr. because of much change in sleep and behavior and much tears and meltdowns to find I to be with double ear infections and strep throat not knowing this thinking just to be to have bad headaches. I to be to have had bladder and kidney infections and had no clue until the blood in urine but for weeks had been so much fussy over everything. not want of to eat and not having a clue as to why. I to be just be learning this of self more so this year about symptoms of illness to me is when my sleep patterns go off and moods emerge that something is of wrong to me. Often I to be like you have gone to the doctors and they to not find nothing but a few days later I to be to go back and find much illness. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Thanks I to be to express self most best in my dancing words. This is true reflections of self when in them. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Pennie , it will be to practice by getting her to use words to communicate , by refusing for a few minutes of an interaction to not allow princess talk until she talks to you about something different. Such as read a book about learning of baby animals. Talk to her and model to her simple questions so she learnes to ask them. Help her to be to form a simple question to ask of you in a turn taking way. After about two turns each thank her for playing with you and then spend equal time with her in the princess things. Yet while she is there increase her awareness to things in her environment that can be to have similarities to the thinking she to be to have and such like if the princess to have jewels take about your jewelry and pretty dresses and shoes and such. Also get her games where she to have to interact that has similar themes of her interest such as the pretty princess game. You can be to also use this tool as incentive as if the game to win you have to collect al the jewels you can use the jewels each day as tokens and if she earns all the jewels each day she gets whatever reward you to set in place to her. ( but please do not be to use the words " if she gets them all-jewels " that she is of a princess , because if she to not be to get them she will see herself as less than to you for not being a princess)Use her interest to reach her but add to it more thinkings. My therapist to be to still do this to me when much stressed and or anxious will use my interest of trees to reach me with complete attention. why I to not be to know why but it works even for me now, because when my brain hears trees it is of great interest to wonder what one might share about the trees to me. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Sondra I have to tell you how much I appreciate your input on our discussions. It really helps to get your point of view. I know when Skylar used to get ear infections she would be cranky for a couple of days, no sleeping etc, but no fever. I would take her to the Dr. and he would say her ears look fine and then 3 days later I would take her back again and there would be an ear infection. She knew that something was wrong before the Dr. could see it. Now I understand how. I never thought of her hypersensitivity and being able to detect that something was wrong in her body before it was easily seen. Thanks for sharing with us Sondra. Tracey. Sondra wrote: > Pennie because some of us are hypersensitive and can detect things going > wrong very early in our bodies but cannot be to process it and or > find the > words so we to know and often dont be to associate the pains to body and > connect the two. Some can but my body is to be to not get the messages > until > strong symptoms due emerge such as fever, vomiting . For me I to be to get > tired and moody about 3 days before any symptoms of illness show its > self. I > to be learning to read if you will these signals. I can be to feel > headaches > and nausea though. But sometime ear infections and strep throat will > be like > bad headache to me. > Sondra > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Sondra That is great about your poetry reading. You must be very proud of yourself. I love poetry and think it is such a beautiful way to express oneself. I cannot write poetry myself but I love to read it. Tracey Sondra wrote: > I to be to had 2 speaking events last week one I to be just as guest > and to > be to speaked there reading some of my poems. I to be to sole 6 of my > books > that day and 4 the one that was an hour speaking event. They to liked > me too > and be to asked me to come back again this coming week to speak to the > middle school. > Sondra > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 I have tried alot of those suggustions already, she will have a conversation as long as it is just question and answer. Occasionally she will start one but very rarely. She had a wonderful IEP 2 weeks ago, her reading is that of a 4th, grader her speech is at 94%, but her weak point is always social skills and conversation. She acts like she doesnt see a point in small talk, maybe she doesnt. For the most part I think I deal with her autism well, I just accept her for who she is. Lately I have had a hard time, I just worry. I think because she is leaving Ellens program and moveing on to another one. Ellen wont even be in the same school as Abby will be placed in. I am worried about the new teacher understanding her. Ellen has had her since she was 2 years old! 4 years have gone by and I know that when she is in PPI that she is safe and that she is understood. Ellen knows Abby's limits yet never underestimates her. She is firm yet loveing at the same time. She is her teacher and her friend and Abby trusts her and knows that she understands her. I am just nervous about the whole thing. Pennie Abby's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 pennie you are to be asking for social conversations of back and forth. Many adults with ASD never reach that level, we can be to script back much thinking when asked a question of things we to know but it is often not of a relatedness skill to socialize. I can be to do back and forth and such but often it is of not of social base but information's based. We are logical and fact based peoples and it is hard for us to be e to understand small talk. Small talk has no real purpose but to allow words to be to come with no intent at times it is just a rambling of words. To us it is often of uninteresting and painful to endure the interaction of one who wants to so call chit chat. Occasionally though one will be to attract our attention long enough to bring us in a emotional base of back and forth of words but not for long as we usually needs to be to go back to the factual things. Our brains are somewhat mechanical in the sense we absorb data and we organize it in our brains and it is used as a guide if you will to life the only things wrong with this is our computer brain does not understand alternatives and or change to the file as it was set in our heads. So for this one might be to hear never say NO to an adult so in them they might have this internal rule that it is of much bad to ever say NO to an adult , but we might not have been able to add the exceptions to the rule parts so to use their is no exceptions tolerated, because our brain stored the rule as is and nothing else was stored with the file in regards to that thinking. We even build in much anxiety if we observe others breaking this rule, we internalize it as though we broke the words and such and often can meltdown over someone else infractions. You can be to teach Abby to comment on words shred to her. Like if a friend to say I to get a new dog? Teach Abby by modeling and cuing how to respond to the words and person. If she have no eye contact dont be to force it but have her at least turn her body to face the person she is of talking to and maybe cue her to ask basic questions to show interest such as what color is your dog? Or is it a girl or boy? Or what did you name it. These little cues helps her to respond which is more important than appearing uninterested in a peers sharing. Then maybe you can cue Abby to share about her pets or what pet she would most like to have. Eventually this helps build in conversations.She will need maybe it modeled in unstructured settings and will need the cues in the beginning. Then fade out your supports. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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