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Hello

I just joined this group. I have a daughter Abbie. She is now 13 years old.

She is a student at THE BOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL which is an international

school for children with autism. She started in June of 1998. She had been in

inclusion in the public school, then a self contained classroom and now she

is in the best school ever!!

http://www.bostonhigashi.org/

She is verbal but does mix up pronouns and cannot really make conversation.

She is very obsessed on certain things (not too much at school) and is social

to adults rather than children. (although inappropriate)

My problem at home is her obsession with clothes. Rather than wear it she is

into my clothing and carries it around. She prefers to be naked and she is

TOO old for this.

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> Hello Carol, My daughter is low functioning and did not talk at 3

yrs.

> old . She is 14 now and has quite a bit of speech going . She still does

not

> talk to strange people . We live north of Little Rock. Sincerely and

welcome

> , Donna ( mom to 14 autism and 8 )

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Hello , Sounds like Abbie and have alot in common, hates clothes

too. Welcome aboard Sincerely, Donna

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[Guest guest]

Hi Carol,

My daughter is 3 1/2 and has really started talking more in the past six

months since she turned three. I think it is hard to see how doctors can

say if a child is low functioning or high functioning when they are so

young - go with your gut instincts - I'm sure your child will be verbal one

day.

Diane xx (BTW, I'm in England)

>

> My daughter will turn three on the 23rd of this month. She was

> diagnosed July 24th as severely autistic. She is low functioning at

> this time, but I do have high hopes that she will eventually become

> verbal. We've recently started a PECS program for her and she is

> doing really well with it. We are from the sville, AR area. I

> was just wondering if there are very many people here with young

> autistic daughters who are/were on a similiar functioning level as my

> daughter. My daughter has been part of Early Intervention since the

> beginning of this year. She has made some progress since then. We

> just transitioned to the 3 to 5 year old program. My daughter gets

> 90

> minutes a week of speech therapy which we are in the progress of

> building her up to 150 minutes, 90 minutes a week of occupational

> therapy, 25 hours a week of specialized instruction, and sensory

> integration every two hours. My daughter has many self-stimulatory

> behaviors and some self-injurious behaviors. I call her my

> infectious

> little giggle box. Her laugh brightens my day no matter how

> frustrating things get. Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing from

> other parents.

>

> Carol

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[Guest guest]

> Hello , Sounds like Abbie and have alot in common,

hates clothes

> too. Welcome aboard Sincerely, Donna

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Hi All!!

My daughter aged 10 also does not like to wear clothes.

As soon as she gets home from school, or from outside playing she

runs inside and takes everything off except her panties. She hates

her bra, knows what its for, but finds it uncomfortable.

It is embarrassing especially for my husband and father. We try

to be firm with the bra, and am still working on it.

You're not alone, that's for sure!!

[Guest guest]

Today I dressed up Abbie in a pretty dress and did her hair. I took some

pictures of her.

Then we went over to drop something off to a friend. On the street there was

a family I knew having a yard sale. They also have a little girl with autism

who is about 6 or so. Abbie as I said is 13 years old.

Abbie picked out some dishes and was very good about it . We put her and the

dishes in the car and I started talking to the women about the school program

her daughter was entering this next week.

All of a sudden we both realize Abbie was sitting in the car with the dishes

playing in her bra and panties. Thank god she had those on since people were

all around looking at things. Definitely a developmental issue. Some children

just do not get to the stage of development that has modesty at all. When you

have a girl doing this it is worst.

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>

> > Hello , Sounds like Abbie and have alot in common,

> hates clothes

> > too. Welcome aboard Sincerely, Donna

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> Hi All!!

>

> My daughter aged 10 also does not like to wear clothes.

> As soon as she gets home from school, or from outside playing she

> runs inside and takes everything off except her panties. She hates

> her bra, knows what its for, but finds it uncomfortable.

>

> It is embarrassing especially for my husband and father. We try

> to be firm with the bra, and am still working on it.

>

> You're not alone, that's for sure!!

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>

>

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[Guest guest]

I think they do not mean low functioning due to speak but in daily living

skills or in developmental areas.

If a three year old is at the stage of an 8 month old (as Abbie was at that

age) in gross motor, cognitive etc skills that are developmentally delayed

and most likely considered to be low functioning by professionals. I am not

sure what is low functioning and what is higher any more. Abbie is higher

functioning in some areas than some kids who are at her school in the way of

understanding , following directions and being able to learn daily living

skills. The school has taught her how to dress herself , brush teeth, hygiene

etc. Some kids can do all those things but do not speak and others speak but

do not make sense. I think they look at the developmental stages of all

children and see where the child is who has the autism. Most are caught in

the sensorimotor stage of developmental and have not reached the

pre-operational stage if you have ever studied Piaget the Child Developmental

Theorist.

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> Hi Carol,

>

> My daughter is 3 1/2 and has really started talking more in the past six

> months since she turned three. I think it is hard to see how doctors can

> say if a child is low functioning or high functioning when they are so

> young - go with your gut instincts - I'm sure your child will be verbal one

> day.

>

> Diane xx (BTW, I'm in England)

>

>

> >

> > My daughter will turn three on the 23rd of this month. She was

> > diagnosed July 24th as severely autistic. She is low functioning at

> > this time, but I do have high hopes that she will eventually become

> > verbal. We've recently started a PECS program for her and she is

> > doing really well with it. We are from the sville, AR area. I

> > was just wondering if there are very many people here with young

> > autistic daughters who are/were on a similiar functioning level as my

> > daughter. My daughter has been part of Early Intervention since the

> > beginning of this year. She has made some progress since then. We

> > just transitioned to the 3 to 5 year old program. My daughter gets

> > 90

> > minutes a week of speech therapy which we are in the progress of

> > building her up to 150 minutes, 90 minutes a week of occupational

> > therapy, 25 hours a week of specialized instruction, and sensory

> > integration every two hours. My daughter has many self-stimulatory

> > behaviors and some self-injurious behaviors. I call her my

> > infectious

> > little giggle box. Her laugh brightens my day no matter how

> > frustrating things get. Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing from

> > other parents.

> >

> > Carol

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

, that is 3 of us with daughters who hates clothes . I wonder if boys

with autism are like that?? Just wondering out loud Sincerely, Donna

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Abbie is fixated on clothing but not wearing them. If she does she puts on my

clothes or my mothers. She love other people clothing. I have a picture

scanned of her with her obsessions . If anyone wants to see it I can email it

to you. Some people do not have the ability to get or want picture

attachments but let me know. She took all of her sister's clothing (a teen

and a crabby one at that) out of her room and put them all over my bedroom

floor. I took a picture before the teen from hell saw it. When she came home

she went in her room and said " who told you to clean my room!!!?? "

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> , that is 3 of us with daughters who hates clothes . I wonder if boys

> with autism are like that?? Just wondering out loud Sincerely, Donna

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