This April has brought a massive change to our household, a change that financially is quite scary but a change that will improve Ethan’s quality of life for the better. Over the past months it has become increasingly evident that for Ethan to thrive and learn new things he needs more routine and more of my time. For the past two years […]
I don’t know if it is now the fact that we are autism aware that our eyes have suddenly been opened to a whole new world but everyday we stumble across more and more autism reference’s in our everyday life. Every newspaper I pick up at the moment contains an article that has a reference
For those of you unaware Something Special is a show on CBeebies, it’s hosted by Justin Fletcher and Mr Tumble. The series is created for kids with special needs and they use Makaton sing language throughout the show. Its a show that Ethan never used to take any interest in but as he has got older he
Over and over again I have been told that autistic children thrive on routine and I know that when Ethan was a baby he set his own feeding routine and we happily followed it but I have always thought we are more organised chaos than strict routine. I also feel Ethan is quite happy to take things
It has taken me a while to be able to write this post as I wanted to wait until we had received Ethan’s diagnosis and as this will be my 100th post I thought no time like the present. I have also wanted to write this post in the hope that it may help others on their
