Guest guest Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi Jane Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and our youngest daughter, Skylar, will be 12 in October and was diagnosed autistic at age 3.. Although I am not where you are yet, I do worry about when that time comes. I am sure you will find this group very helpful, I know I have. It is a great group of people and a great place to get ideas, opinions or just vent on bad days. Its good to have you with us. Tracey Hi I'm new here! Hi, I am new to this group, my name is Jane and I have a 16 year old daughter with autism. She is verbal, and for the most part does pretty well. My issues at this point are how she is going to transition to a job and her post-school life, it is hitting me hard here the past year, and it scares me, as a mother you want to always protect them but you also at this stage see the need to help them to be as independant as they possibly can be. If anyone out there is at the stage I am at, would love to hear from you. If I can help with advice to anyone I would also share what I know. Glad to have found you all! Jane in Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi Jane Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and our youngest daughter, Skylar, will be 12 in October and was diagnosed autistic at age 3.. Although I am not where you are yet, I do worry about when that time comes. I am sure you will find this group very helpful, I know I have. It is a great group of people and a great place to get ideas, opinions or just vent on bad days. Its good to have you with us. Tracey Hi I'm new here! Hi, I am new to this group, my name is Jane and I have a 16 year old daughter with autism. She is verbal, and for the most part does pretty well. My issues at this point are how she is going to transition to a job and her post-school life, it is hitting me hard here the past year, and it scares me, as a mother you want to always protect them but you also at this stage see the need to help them to be as independant as they possibly can be. If anyone out there is at the stage I am at, would love to hear from you. If I can help with advice to anyone I would also share what I know. Glad to have found you all! Jane in Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi Tracey, Thank-you for the welcome, I am glad to have found this group of families with daughters. Jenna was also diagnosed at age 3 just like Skylar, there are days when I look back and cannot believe the road we've traveled, seems like in some ways in a blink of an eye she has become a teenager on her way to adulthood. She is in a typical HS as a sophmore, but is in an MH room with some typical peer interaction, her IEP focuses mainly on lifeskill courses that she will need. Her class goes out into the community now to different job sites to learn skills, most of them are cleaning related which is frustrating to me, and I am in the process of hooking her up hopefully with an agency where she can learn clerical duties, as she loves the computer and does office work in different areas in her school now. Have always felt they sell our kids short on what they are capable of doing. Jenna language skills are pretty good, can answer my questions, but is just not a social communicator at all. She is repetetive alot also, right now she likes to say the date over and over , and likes to as you math questions over and over. EG: what is 12 + 2?? She knows the answers to most of them, but likes you to tell her the wrong answer so she can correct you. She is a pretty happy child most of the time, I tell people she just lives in the moment of whats happening at the time, I never really feel like I know just what she is thinking about. So... thats Jenna in a nut-shell, tell me more about Skylar when you get a chance. Take Care, Jane Duane & Tracey Pratt wrote: Hi Jane Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and our youngest daughter, Skylar, will be 12 in October and was diagnosed autistic at age 3.. Although I am not where you are yet, I do worry about when that time comes. I am sure you will find this group very helpful, I know I have. It is a great group of people and a great place to get ideas, opinions or just vent on bad days. Its good to have you with us. Tracey Hi I'm new here! Hi, I am new to this group, my name is Jane and I have a 16 year old daughter with autism. She is verbal, and for the most part does pretty well. My issues at this point are how she is going to transition to a job and her post-school life, it is hitting me hard here the past year, and it scares me, as a mother you want to always protect them but you also at this stage see the need to help them to be as independant as they possibly can be. If anyone out there is at the stage I am at, would love to hear from you. If I can help with advice to anyone I would also share what I know. Glad to have found you all! Jane in Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi Tracey, Thank-you for the welcome, I am glad to have found this group of families with daughters. Jenna was also diagnosed at age 3 just like Skylar, there are days when I look back and cannot believe the road we've traveled, seems like in some ways in a blink of an eye she has become a teenager on her way to adulthood. She is in a typical HS as a sophmore, but is in an MH room with some typical peer interaction, her IEP focuses mainly on lifeskill courses that she will need. Her class goes out into the community now to different job sites to learn skills, most of them are cleaning related which is frustrating to me, and I am in the process of hooking her up hopefully with an agency where she can learn clerical duties, as she loves the computer and does office work in different areas in her school now. Have always felt they sell our kids short on what they are capable of doing. Jenna language skills are pretty good, can answer my questions, but is just not a social communicator at all. She is repetetive alot also, right now she likes to say the date over and over , and likes to as you math questions over and over. EG: what is 12 + 2?? She knows the answers to most of them, but likes you to tell her the wrong answer so she can correct you. She is a pretty happy child most of the time, I tell people she just lives in the moment of whats happening at the time, I never really feel like I know just what she is thinking about. So... thats Jenna in a nut-shell, tell me more about Skylar when you get a chance. Take Care, Jane Duane & Tracey Pratt wrote: Hi Jane Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and our youngest daughter, Skylar, will be 12 in October and was diagnosed autistic at age 3.. Although I am not where you are yet, I do worry about when that time comes. I am sure you will find this group very helpful, I know I have. It is a great group of people and a great place to get ideas, opinions or just vent on bad days. Its good to have you with us. Tracey Hi I'm new here! Hi, I am new to this group, my name is Jane and I have a 16 year old daughter with autism. She is verbal, and for the most part does pretty well. My issues at this point are how she is going to transition to a job and her post-school life, it is hitting me hard here the past year, and it scares me, as a mother you want to always protect them but you also at this stage see the need to help them to be as independant as they possibly can be. If anyone out there is at the stage I am at, would love to hear from you. If I can help with advice to anyone I would also share what I know. Glad to have found you all! Jane in Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 HI Jane Jenna sounds alot lik Skylar. Right now Sky is in a regular Grade 7 class with a full time E.A,. Her program is 100% modified from the regular Grade 7 curriculum, but she is doing great at the work she is doing. Sky didn't speak a word until age 5 1/2. Now she never shuts up.....lol. She still has problems with articulation and she has a tendency to speak very fast (hubby says she gets that from me), so sometimes people who don't know her very well have a hard time understanding her, so we are working on " turtle talk " so that she will slow down so other can understand her better. She has a core group of friends that she plays with daily and they are all great to her. She still has problem understanding some of the subtleties of social interaction but it is a work in progress. She can now carry a very small simple conversation without any help, so this is something else she is improving on. Skylar thing is that she is always making noises. She squeak and squawks, is always talking to the tv or imitating what she heard on the tv. She loves movies and knows exactly when they are coming out on DVD. I was looking to rent a specific movies the other night and I couldn't fine it. Skylar says " Mom it comes out Sept 21 on DVD and Video " . She has a memory on her like a steel trap. Never tell her that we can do somthing in a week or a few days, because she won't forget about it and will remind you when it is time. She and her older sister are really close and that has been a huge help to us because Skylar wants to be " just like Coral " . She wants to get a job where Coral works when she turns 14, she wants to do anything her sister does and Coral is great with her, so that has helped Sky alot. Well that is what my daughter is like. Puberty is something thta scares the heck out of me. I am trying to understand my hormonal 14 year old now. I am not sure I am ready to have Sky there too. Look forward to hearing more from you Jane. Take care Tracey ----- Original Mssage ----- From: JANE JOHNSON To: Autism_in_Girls Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:57 PM Subject: Re: Hi I'm new here! Hi Tracey, Thank-you for the welcome, I am glad to have found this group of families with daughters. Jenna was also diagnosed at age 3 just like Skylar, there are days when I look back and cannot believe the road we've traveled, seems like in some ways in a blink of an eye she has become a teenager on her way to adulthood. She is in a typical HS as a sophmore, but is in an MH room with some typical peer interaction, her IEP focuses mainly on lifeskill courses that she will need. Her class goes out into the community now to different job sites to learn skills, most of them are cleaning related which is frustrating to me, and I am in the process of hooking her up hopefully with an agency where she can learn clerical duties, as she loves the computer and does office work in different areas in her school now. Have always felt they sell our kids short on what they are capable of doing. Jenna language skills are pretty good, can answer my questions, but is just not a social communicator at all. She is repetetive alot also, right now she likes to say the date over and over , and likes to as you math questions over and over. EG: what is 12 + 2?? She knows the answers to most of them, but likes you to tell her the wrong answer so she can correct you. She is a pretty happy child most of the time, I tell people she just lives in the moment of whats happening at the time, I never really feel like I know just what she is thinking about. So... thats Jenna in a nut-shell, tell me more about Skylar when you get a chance. Take Care, Jane Duane & Tracey Pratt wrote: Hi Jane Welcome to the list. My name is Tracey and our youngest daughter, Skylar, will be 12 in October and was diagnosed autistic at age 3.. Although I am not where you are yet, I do worry about when that time comes. I am sure you will find this group very helpful, I know I have. It is a great group of people and a great place to get ideas, opinions or just vent on bad days. Its good to have you with us. Tracey Hi I'm new here! Hi, I am new to this group, my name is Jane and I have a 16 year old daughter with autism. She is verbal, and for the most part does pretty well. My issues at this point are how she is going to transition to a job and her post-school life, it is hitting me hard here the past year, and it scares me, as a mother you want to always protect them but you also at this stage see the need to help them to be as independant as they possibly can be. If anyone out there is at the stage I am at, would love to hear from you. If I can help with advice to anyone I would also share what I know. Glad to have found you all! Jane in Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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