Re: Introduction New to Group

[Guest guest]

Howdy...

Darby (at nearly 5) is still afraid of the vacuum, although she allows it if

she's in the house now, she just prefers to be nowhere near it.

She still hates my stand up mixer, so it lives in the cupboard instead of on the

counter.

Darby is non-speaking, but has some great (I think) receptive language. She's

in Early Ed 5 days/wk, 26 hours total, and privately we augment her school w/OT,

SLP (2/wk), Hippotherapy (horse back riding with an OT), water therapy 2/wk,

listening therapy 2/day(sonomas) and we follow a modified dan! protocol. She's

also ~95% toilet learned for pee, and poop is such an issue (terrible

withholding/constipation/diahrea issues) that I refuse to even try yet.

Kendra sounds alot like Darby, I bet she's just the apple of your eye.

Doreen

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Hello, My name is . I have a three year old Autistic Daughter named

Kendra; she is an absolute pleasure to be around!

I joined this list because I am looking for support and help with trying to

get her to communicate and function to the best of her ability. She doesn't

say much at all, maybe 6 words at the most. She is in speech therapy 4 times

a week and Occupational Therapy once a week.

She isn't scared of very much except things that make loud sounds. such as

the blender, mixers etc.. but she is PETRIFIED of the vacuum cleaner, and as

I have been on these autism and special needs groups I have found that this

is a very common problem.

She has been through the barrage of testing, Hearing, OT evaluations,

Speech evaluations, and She only recently got the OFFFICIAL diagnosis of

Autism. From her pediatrician.

We live in the Tennessee area, and I'm on Yahoo and AIM

LiL Tadpole 84 =AIM

Amethystdjembe = yahoo messenger

Any help or advice would be most appreciated.. and I hope to get to all of

you..

Blessed Be,

&

Abundant Blessings

(Amethyst)

[Guest guest]

Welcome!

Please make sure to work on pre-speech/non-verbal foundations of

communication and experience sharing before you work for " talk " . We

were mislead to believe that " talk " would include the non-verbal

foundations, and we created " talk " as a splinter skill.

PennY

>

> Hello, My name is . I have a three year old Autistic Daughter

named

> Kendra; she is an absolute pleasure to be around!

>

>

>

> I joined this list because I am looking for support and help with

trying to

> get her to communicate and function to the best of her ability. She

doesn't

> say much at all, maybe 6 words at the most. She is in speech therapy 4

times

> a week and Occupational Therapy once a week.

>

>

>

> She isn't scared of very much except things that make loud sounds.

such as

> the blender, mixers etc.. but she is PETRIFIED of the vacuum cleaner,

and as

> I have been on these autism and special needs groups I have found that

this

> is a very common problem.

>

>

>

> She has been through the barrage of testing, Hearing, OT evaluations,

> Speech evaluations, and She only recently got the OFFFICIAL diagnosis

of

> Autism. From her pediatrician.

>

>

>

>

>

> We live in the Tennessee area, and I'm on Yahoo and AIM

>

>

>

> LiL Tadpole 84 =AIM

>

> Amethystdjembe = yahoo messenger

>

>

>

> Any help or advice would be most appreciated.. and I hope to get to

all of

> you..

>

>

>

>

>

> Blessed Be,

>

> &

>

> Abundant Blessings

>

> (Amethyst)

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Doreen,

Sounds like you and Darby are very active! Kendra isn't that

involved.. she has speech therapy 4 days a week and OT 1 time a week, Here

in Tenn. I haven't found a whole lot of things for her yet. and she does

make noises just not a lot of words.. and those few words she does say

(MAYBE a vocabulary of 6) come very sporadically (I think I spelled that

right) and not very often. her FAVORITE THING in the whole world to do is to

" rain " things down between her fingers.. and let them fall on the floor or

table.. she could do this for hours! Rocks, sand, blocks.. all that good

stuff.

And she loves to stack and sort stuff.. such as block, and cans. lining

stuff up is another thing she loves to do..

And Banging her head. ohh how I hate it when she does that.

She is a great kid, but at this point I'm not sure how to get her to

communicate and what I can do with her for activities.. very stressful.

Could you tell me what ABA is? I've heard a lot about it in regards to

autism.. but I don't know a lot about it..

And have you heard of using a communication board? Like with Pictures and

stuff?

Thanks!

Blessed Be,

&

Abundant Blessings

(Amethyst)

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From: Autism_in_Girls

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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:09 PM

To: Autism_in_Girls

Subject: Re: Introduction New to Group

Howdy...

Darby (at nearly 5) is still afraid of the vacuum, although she allows it if

she's in the house now, she just prefers to be nowhere near it.

She still hates my stand up mixer, so it lives in the cupboard instead of on

the counter.

Darby is non-speaking, but has some great (I think) receptive language.

She's in Early Ed 5 days/wk, 26 hours total, and privately we augment her

school w/OT, SLP (2/wk), Hippotherapy (horse back riding with an OT), water

therapy 2/wk, listening therapy 2/day(sonomas) and we follow a modified dan!

protocol. She's also ~95% toilet learned for pee, and poop is such an issue

(terrible withholding/constipation/diahrea issues) that I refuse to even try

yet.

Kendra sounds alot like Darby, I bet she's just the apple of your eye.

Doreen

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From: " Amethyst Djembe " <amethystdjembe@ <mailto:amethystdjembe%40yahoo.com>

yahoo.com>

Hello, My name is . I have a three year old Autistic Daughter named

Kendra; she is an absolute pleasure to be around!

I joined this list because I am looking for support and help with trying to

get her to communicate and function to the best of her ability. She doesn't

say much at all, maybe 6 words at the most. She is in speech therapy 4 times

a week and Occupational Therapy once a week.

She isn't scared of very much except things that make loud sounds. such as

the blender, mixers etc.. but she is PETRIFIED of the vacuum cleaner, and as

I have been on these autism and special needs groups I have found that this

is a very common problem.

She has been through the barrage of testing, Hearing, OT evaluations,

Speech evaluations, and She only recently got the OFFFICIAL diagnosis of

Autism. From her pediatrician.

We live in the Tennessee area, and I'm on Yahoo and AIM

LiL Tadpole 84 =AIM

Amethystdjembe = yahoo messenger

Any help or advice would be most appreciated.. and I hope to get to all of

you..

Blessed Be,

&

Abundant Blessings

(Amethyst)

[Guest guest]

I can't say Darby follows a " standard " ABA plan, she does, however have a

program that implements a lot of ABA into her leaning environment.

Hard to explain, but here goes:

Darby sits at a table with a therapist on the opposite side facing her. The

therapist shows Darby 2 different motivating items (edibles for most kids, for

my girl its musical stuff), and asks Darby what she'd like to work for. Darby

chooses by touch or point, and they begin.

Therapist: " Darby, put with same " and places 8 items in front of Darby, 4 same

matches (say, if it were legos, there were be 2 each of 4 different kinds).

Darby would put all the same ones together, and after 5 or 10 minutes of various

activities such as these, she'd get a break to play with her motivating toy she

chose.

This is how Darby has learned names of people (pictures of us, her family, and

she's asked to " find Mama " , " find Kramer [our cat], etc.), she's learned the

names for different items of clothing, colors, etc.

Darby does this 3/day within her school program, and is up to ~30-35 min of work

time. She has a 1:1 aide in school to help her participate in the preschool

activities such as art and circle time (she needs tons of support for those

kinds of things).

Darby too loves to watch things " fall " . We used to have a wading pool (you

know, the plastic kind you get at Kmart or Walmart in the summer) and we filled

it with dried feed corn or dried beans, and she's sit in there and play for

hours (if we'd let her). Her other favorite is cups. I buy the huge package at

Costco and we build towers in them, and for down time she likes to nest them

inside each other. She's really picky too with food, but I've found that if I

offer her new food while she's in the tub (water nice & warm) she's more likely

to try new things. We work on messy play alot too.

Yes, we do keep her really busy. We're fotunate with our insurance coverage and

the services offered here in our state. I've fought tooth & nail with school

for the measly 26 hours we get (2 times I filed due process hearing proceedings,

thankfully we settled out of court both times). And summer services are another

fight, but we got up to 22.5 hours last summer, so I'll push for more this year.

I just wrote the best IEP I think I could possibly ever write for my girl and I

couldn't be more proud. Now I have to get school on board with the

accomodations and modificiations portion, and I might just breathe a sigh of

releif!

--------- Re: Introduction New to Group

Howdy...

Darby (at nearly 5) is still afraid of the vacuum, although she allows it if

she's in the house now, she just prefers to be nowhere near it.

She still hates my stand up mixer, so it lives in the cupboard instead of on

the counter.

Darby is non-speaking, but has some great (I think) receptive language.

She's in Early Ed 5 days/wk, 26 hours total, and privately we augment her

school w/OT, SLP (2/wk), Hippotherapy (horse back riding with an OT), water

therapy 2/wk, listening therapy 2/day(sonomas) and we follow a modified dan!

protocol. She's also ~95% toilet learned for pee, and poop is such an issue

(terrible withholding/constipation/diahrea issues) that I refuse to even try

yet.

Kendra sounds alot like Darby, I bet she's just the apple of your eye.

Doreen

-------------- Original message --------------

From: " Amethyst Djembe " <amethystdjembe@ <mailto:amethystdjembe%40yahoo.com>

yahoo.com>

Hello, My name is . I have a three year old Autistic Daughter named

Kendra; she is an absolute pleasure to be around!

I joined this list because I am looking for support and help with trying to

get her to communicate and function to the best of her ability. She doesn't

say much at all, maybe 6 words at the most. She is in speech therapy 4 times

a week and Occupational Therapy once a week.

She isn't scared of very much except things that make loud sounds. such as

the blender, mixers etc.. but she is PETRIFIED of the vacuum cleaner, and as

I have been on these autism and special needs groups I have found that this

is a very common problem.

She has been through the barrage of testing, Hearing, OT evaluations,

Speech evaluations, and She only recently got the OFFFICIAL diagnosis of

Autism. From her pediatrician.

We live in the Tennessee area, and I'm on Yahoo and AIM

LiL Tadpole 84 =AIM

Amethystdjembe = yahoo messenger

Any help or advice would be most appreciated.. and I hope to get to all of

you..

Blessed Be,

&

Abundant Blessings

(Amethyst)