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Entries for July, 2007

Autism Series - School

Pookie is only 4 1/2 years old, but already has 1 1/2 years of preschool under his belt. The preschool has been provided through the public schools because he fits the special needs requirements that mandate that the education must be available.
We have been through 2 IEPs and have already learned a thing or [...]

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When Things Change Like Flipping A Light Switch

Between 4:00pm and 6:00pm tonight, Pookie peed on the floor 4 times. I sent him upstairs to change each time. Took away the toy that was distracting him a couple times and figured it was just a bad day.

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Autism Series: Diet

I’ll start this autism series with an easy topic for our family. Diet.
How many of your 2 to 4 year olds eat carrots, corn on the cob, cottage cheese, baked beans, spaghetti, tacos, and bagels? In our house, 1 out of 2. Pookie usually eats a wider variety of food than Geetle…and Geetle is no [...]

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Autism Series - The Intro

I am the father of a boy with autism but I do not belong to any Fight for the Cure type of organizations.
I am happy that those organizations exist but I do not think that raising a child with autism means that you need to spend one Saturday a month trying to raise money for [...]

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Two quick things before I take the weekend off

I’ll be back on Monday. That’s when we start the autism series that I mentioned a couple days back. Instead of posting over the weekend, I’m going to spend time getting as much of the series finished before Monday.
That was the first quick thing.
The second is that this blog started on August 1, [...]

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