On Friday night, we put Little Mister to bed, and then started the 2.5 hour trek up to Midland for Dr. Rick Solomon’s Level 2 Floortime workshop. We stopped off briefly in East Lansing for ice cream, an made it to our hotel around 1 am. Our wake-up call came at 7 am.
The hotel we […]
Earlier this morning, my wife had Rubén out on the back porch while I was working here at my machine (which I do whenever I get the opportunity). She stomped through the back door in disgust, lamenting his lack of engagement, and informed me that they were heading out to the pole barn to try […]
We’ve been posting in the various autism-related message boards we frequent about Rubén’s supplement see-saw. Since starting his vitamin supplement regime, we saw completely bi-polar (meaning two extremes, not the clinical term “bipolar disorder”) behavior, even on the same day. He would be almost completely unreachable during the morning hours, yet would somehow emerge from […]
This week has been roller coaster, often in the same day. We’re departing for the Level 2 Workshop in Midland tonight, so time is short. I just wanted to let you in on a nice little something I noticed today.
We went to the park for the second time today, to give my folks a chance […]
Katie, our newly unemployed floortime consultant, came for her final “official” visit today. She’s investigating the possibility of entering private practice, which could open up a new realm of flexibility in working with her. This senseless blow dealt by the university, while unbelievably bad for the parents of ASD kids in Michigan, might just […]
When you work so intensively with a child, sometimes you can’t help but get the nagging sense that, in your labor to bring the child back to the world, you somehow forget to show your child the world. We work either outside, in the pole barn, or in the basement, mostly the latter. Rubén therefore […]
Well, over the weekend we were never quite able to attain that same level of euphoria we enjoyed on Friday. We had some good moments, and we had some relatively sucky ones. If this were a soccer game, I guess I’d call the weekend a tie…
We’ve got some interesting events coming up in the near […]
Wow, what a ride. Most of the week has been a wasteland of avoidance. But yesterday and today we’re suddenly back up in the stratosphere. Interactive bliss. I really don’t get it, but I have to say I’m pleased.
Starting with yesterday: we went outside, and Rubén started his march toward the pole barn, something he’s […]